Home Sharing/Network Connections

I am immensely frustrated with this new Apple TV. The streaming feature is unreliable. The network connectivity also is unreliable. I have good wifi signal, and a very fast connection. All of my wireless devices connect just fine. I've opened the firewall channels on my router (which, by the way, required more technical knowledge than any end-user product should). I've updated the software, rebooted, reset, rebooted again, turned on and off home sharing, and rebooted again. It still does not work reliably. It will for a while, then it stops. Short of opening all incoming connections in my firewall (which seems stupid) or running ethernet cable through my walls to see if that does it, I'm fresh out of ideas. My old Apple TV never had these problems. Ever. If it did, it was masked by everything being stored locally and not relying on complicated network settings or requiring your computer to be awake to access music. Boo. If it doesn't get remedied, I'm going with the competition.

If possible... connect the ATV2 to your router via ethernet and see if any of the issues still exist. If all of your problems are wireless related they should go away when you do this.
Go back to wireless after that but try different locations for the ATV2.
Change the wireless channel. You would need to do this on the router, ATV2 and any other devices you want present for testing on the wireless network.
Try a different brand wireless router.

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