Apple TV streaming music woes.

Hi, I've got a new Apple TV and an intel iMac running 10.5.8. When I'm streaming music to Apple TV I frequently have to first start playing music on the computer, then switch via airplay to the apple TV before it will start playing. Trying to initiate music playing from my ipad is the same story - first have to start playing on the ipad, then switch airplay to apple TV. If I used the ipad or iphone as remote to control the computer's music the results were initially fantastic, then unexplicably stopped working reliably at all. Sometimes it works now if I turn on the TV, but really I mainly want to stream music to my surround sound reciever connected by optical cable. Any suggestions?

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You can download and install iStumbler (NetStumbler for windows users) to help you see which channels are used by neighbouring networks so that you can avoid them, but iStumbler will not see household items.
Refer to your router manual for instructions on changing your wifi channel.
There are other types of problems that can affect networks, but this is by far the most common, hence worth mentioning first.

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