Apple TV home share never works

Both of my Apple Tv's loose connection on occation. My recurring problem which has became worse is home sharing. It's so bad with Itunes 11!! Everytime I want to use the apple tv it seems like everytime I have to restart it and itunes. Anybody else having these issues?

Home sharing has never worked for me since updating to the latest iTunes and Apple TV software. It also rarely worked before, that's why I updated in the first place.
I have an Apple TV 2nd generation, updated to the latest version. I have iTunes on a Windows 7 desktop PC and updated to the latest version. Both are connected to the Internet via an ethernet connection. I wired the connection to the Apple TV after people said it was more reliable, but that is not the case for me unfortunately. Sharing works flawlessly from the same PC to both iPhones in the house as well as an iPad, but not the Apple TV.
It is very puzzling how this basic feature has been so difficult to implement with the Apple TV. Anyone have a Roku, does it have a similar feature that actually works as advertised?

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Got it working! Opened the port on my Linksys Apple TV: TCP and UDP ports and protocols used
TCP port 123 is used to communicate with a network time server.
TCP port 3689 is used to communicate with iTunes while using the iTunes Library Sharing feature.
UDP port 5353 is used by Apple TV for automatically finding computers with iTunes on your network using
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Have you checked all devices are connected to the same network and tried restarting your router.
The following article(s) may help you.
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Multicast Streams
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Hi,
I'm using an iMac, I have Apple TV 2, a Bt home hub 3, between 30-50mb speed over wifi (160mb when my mac is wired). I have followed all the set up instructions, up to date software, firewall etc. On the Apple TV I can watch a movie through it's iTunes no problem, BUT when I try via home sharing it works for a few minutes then tells me to connect to the network, then connects again a few seconds later, then I try again and it does the same thing despite every other wifi device working fine ( humax, ps3, wii). Until about 4/5 months ago it worked perfectly with exactly the same hardware, so surely it can only be the updates? Is there a solution out there or do I have to wait until Apple pull their bloody finger out and fix it properly? The main reason for having Apple TV was the home sharing, so now this is just an expensive doorstop.
Any help would be great
Thanks

Have you tried a PRAM reset?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
If you look in the audio output port, is there a red light showing. If so, the internal switch is stuck.. Insert the headphones a few times, jiggle a toothpick inside or shot some compressed air to trip the switch. If no success, have the Apple store genius bar technician do it.
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