Home sharing constantly dropping out

I have two apple TVs (2 gen) streaming from a single mac using home sharing over a private wifi network.  I have a problem with the Apple TV constantly losing the home sharing link.  It can be part way through a movie playing and then suddenly the movie stops and the home sharing prompt comes up on the Apple TV.  I restart itunes (the latest version) on the Mac and the Apple TV immediately picks up hte home sharing library again. Sometimes it will play a whole movie, sometimes just  ten minutes, sometimes when the Apple TV wakes up it finds the home sharing link sometimes it doesn't.  I can not seem to find a common cause - I stop the computer sleeping, no difference.  When it drops out the Apple TV still has wifi, I can access Youtube for example - no problems.  This is driving me bananas.  Anyone got any suggestions?

I have owned Apple TV for a year and half and dropping home sharing has been a problem from day one. I have spoken to Apple many times and tried all their suggestions, Macbook Pro, Airport Extreme, Reboot, Reload, Etc..... Nothing has solved the problem. The problem may be as frequent as every 5 minutes or once in 3 hours. Logging out of home sharing and logging back in gets home sharing back running but does not solve the problem.
I am convinced Apple TV is garbage. Everything I own made by Apple "just works" I cannot say the same about Apple TV. It is an expensive paperweight. I cannot recommended anyone to purchase this product and during my year and a half relationship with Apple TV, it is obvious that this problem is widespread and Apple has no resolution to fix it. This piece of junk just sits there collecting dust since it is too frustrating to use it. 
I have spent many, many thousands on Apple products and everything works fine, but Apple TV is garbage.

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