ATV + USB 2.0 Drive + Airport Extreme Wireless-n + Intel iMac = BROKEN!!!

I have just dumped a sh*tload of money into getting an Apple TV. I purchased:
1. Airport Extreme @ $180 + tax
2. Apple TV @ $300 + tax
3. 2 - 500 GB hard drives @ $218 + tax
4. 1 - dual drive enclosure to make drives 1 TB @ $80 + tax
My first problem is that I can't use the airport extreme with WEP. It just won't connect to the internet, I have to use it without security.
I plugged in my Apple TV connected to my iMac. I can stream video without any problems with this config. BUT I don't have ANY local hard drive space so I got the external drive.
I started noticing that there is a 15% white flicker on the screen, VERY ANNOYING.
I transferred my iTunes library to the external 1 TB drive, plugged it into my Airport Extreme, setup the drive to display on my desktop, pointed my iTunes library to it across the network. This works ok on the compter.
My ATV would not connect to my iMac anymore. I spent hours trying to get it to work. I finally hit RESTORE FACTORY SETTINGS and was able to connect and stream. After about 20 minutes of streaming it stopped and ATV no longer was connected to my iMac. I spent another few hours trying to get it to connect again, but it won't.
I moved my 1 TB USB 2.0 drive and plugged it directly into the iMac, I re-pointed my iTunes library to get it from the local USB drive. The ATV now connects just fine.
I started streaming a movie to watch and I can only watch it in 30 second chunks! Every 30 seconds it spends another 30 seconds buffering. Then it starts playing again for 30 seconds and then buffers again. It does this for all video content, BUT when it was connected through the network it was streaming just fine.
So I said, "fine, just for tonight I will sync this movie so I can at least watch it since I have wasted hours upon hours struggling to get this to work." I synced the movie but it just spins and never transfers over.
How can something so expensive work sooooooo poorly????????????? Was an $800 investment not enough? Not to mention all the money I spend at the iTunes store.
WHAAAAT THEEEEEEE F******************K IS WRONG!?!?!?!?!?!?

Network problems can be difficult to diagnose, but there are a couple of problem areas I can see with your set up.
Network drives are notoriously slow, moving your drive to a direct connection to your mac will speed up access to it between 15 and 70 times depending on the type of connection you use.
I note you have combined two drives in a single enclosure, RAID drives are not supported as airdisks although certain RAID levels have been seen to work but others haven't.
Loading the drive attached to your mac and moving it can be problematic. It is possible that you can load files with certain characters in their filename that are not acceptable when loaded over a network.
If you have a flicker on your video, my first thought would be a poor or damaged connection/lead.

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