Constant buffering

Hey everyone,
My boyfriend bought me an AppleTV for Christmas. I didn't know what it was at first even though I am an avid MacBook and iPhone user. Anyway after getting my head around it all, we rented a movie from the Apple TV on Thursday evening - and to my serious frustration all it was doing every 10-15 minutes was a loooong stage of buffering, re-starting, buffering again etc - so much so that I fell asleep before the end of the movie ha! Disappointing.
This afternoon wanted to give it another go - been messing around with my iTunes library trying to play some Music Videos from my library through my ATV - and even THAT buffers too! What gives?! Although I am a fair way away from my router (which I think may be the problem?) My MacBook and iPhone both have no struggle connecting and using the internet in my room where the said ATV is.
May be a stupid question also - can you rent on itunes and then stream to your ATV? Because the movies seem cheaper on there? And if this is possible surely I'm still going to have buffering issues seeing as the music videos struggle am I not?
Thanks x

It may well be distance, are you able to try the set up nearer to the router. It could also be interference, interference can be caused by other networks in the neighbourhood or from household electrical items.
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 or adjusting your multicast rate.
There are other types of problems that can affect networks, but this is by far the most common, hence worth mentioning first.
Yes you can rent from iTunes and stream from iTunes to the Apple TV, but if you are having trouble playing music videos, you will likely have the same problem with movies.
There is no difference in pricing between iTunes on the computer and the Apple TV, what you are likely seeing is the difference between HD and SD, your Apple TV only sees one quality at once and by default that is HD, you can set it to SD ata settings > general > iTunes Store.

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