Getting AppleTV to wake up sleeping Mac Mini

I was planning on transfering my iTunes library from a G5 running Leopard to a 2.0GHz MacMini Core2Duo with Snow Leopard. The main reason for this was the feature that allows other machines to wake up sleeping computers running snow leopard.. cannot get this to work though.. argh!
In energy saver i have checked:
Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible
*Wake for network access*
Allow power button to put the computer to sleep
has anyone else got this to work? is there something somewhere else i need to set to get this to work on router (airport extreme N)? i can't even see the Mini on the network when it goes to sleep so something must not be working right.

yeah, i put it here because it's not really an appleTV question.. it's really an OS X networking question.. this is a feature of Snow leopard to wake up other clients on the network of which appleTV is only one sort of client you might want to do this from..
as i alluded to.. i'd also like to be able to have my Mac Mini wake up and be visible on the network when i want to access it from other computers on the network (i use it headless primarily.. share screen from G5).. but the Mini is not visible when sleeping (means i have to go trudge upstairs to wake it). there is not even any setting for this on an appleTV, it's all in OS X and also, i'm guessing from the response i got (Thanks JGG!), requires certain networking hardware.. so again this is not really an appleTV question and why i think it actually more appropriately belong here and not the appleTV forum.. i just though i'd put it there as well to hedge my bets on getting a response..
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