ATV keeps re-syncing

Alright, so I bought an Apple TV a few months ago, and I love it, but I'm having a problem with the syncing.
I set the Apple TV to a custom sync, syncing all movies, TV shows, and podcasts.
The ATV will star to sync, and it will start syncing fine, albeit incredibly slow. It will usually take more than a day to sync around 50GB or so (I don't know if that's normal or not).
But then, whenever iTunes is opened, or the internet crashes and restarts, the ATV will always start resyncing. This can get incredibly frustrating, as it takes up a lot of internet, and then I can't view some items on the ATV as well.
If anyone could help out, that would be brilliant. I'm using iTunes 8.2, Mac OSX 14.11, and ATV 2.4

I don't find syncing each time iTunes is opened to be a problem as I'm always changing play lists, downloading new podcasts, videos and songs. I want it re-sync each time iTunes is opened or I turn my MacBook on from sleep. If there are no new files to transfer, it just takes a few seconds to sync which is all done in the background anyway.
If you don't have your AppleTV on an 802.11n WiFi network, I would suggest that you move it to that. I did and it's much faster at transferring files over 802.11g.
I actually run a dual-band WiFi network, where I have a Time Capsule and AppleTV running on a 802.11n (5 GHz), and then I have an ethernet cable running to from my Time Capsule to an Airport Express that runs a 802.11g (2.4 GHz) for my iPhones to connect to. It works great!

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