Apple TV hangs while playing music

I have 3 Apple TVs (ATV), all connected via wired ethernet to the home modem/router. One is an older model ATV (with internal disk), let's call this ATV1. Another is a first generation new ATV (the 720p model), let's call this ATV2. The 3rd is a recent model ATV (purchased June 2012), call this ATV3. The problem relates to ATV3.
I have home sharing turned ON from my home Mac Pro, which holds the main iTunes library. Normally, ATV2 and ATV3 can see the iTunes library and can play music and videos off of it, simultaneously, no problem. So there seems to be nothing wrong with the network or with the home sharing or the library.
However, ATV3 will occasionally "hang", by which I mean that it will suddenly 1) stop playing the music that it was playing and 2) will become "invisible" on the network (as seen from my "remote" app on my iphone which normally can "see" both ATV2 and ATV3, but which suddenly sees only ATV2 when ATV3 stops playing).
If I turn off and then on the ATV3, it will show up again under the remote app on the iphone, I can play music on it off the library, and all's well until it happens again. This happens intermittently. Sometimes after an hour of playing, sometimes after 5 minutes. It happens irrespective of whether the other ATVs in the house are playing music/video or not. The frequency of the failure seems to increase when ATV2 is being used.
I should mention that ATV3 is the most recent one to join the home network.
I should also add that previously, when I had only ATV1 and ATV2, I would find that ATV2 will sometimes "hang", but only very rarely, like every few weeks, upon which I would reset it and just blame it on a soft error somewhere.
Help!

Strangely enough, I exchanged the ATV2 and ATV3 and now both work fine. I suspect it may have something to do with the fact that (previously) the ATV3 (1080p) was behind an ethernet hub. Somehow the ATV2 (720p) does not mind being behind the hub. Either that or iTunes suddenly became smarter since the exchange . Anyway, it works now so I'm not touching it. Thanks for the suggestion.

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