Can't get iTunes "Home Sharing" to work...

Before we switched to FIOS, we had Comcast and the Home Sharing on iTunes worked fine. Now, some setting must be different because I can't get the libraries from 2 different computers to "talk" to each other. I have all the settings in iTunes correct, but each doesn't "show up" on the other's network.
Any suggestions?

Log into the router and select the Advanced settings. There's a item to dump the router configuration on that screen -- it'll download a file to your PC-- you can just open it with Notepad is it's just a text file.

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