ITunes 11 wifi sync problem

Hi all,
I just update to iTunes 11, but since than I'm only able to sync my iPad and iPhone with a cable, the wifi sync option is not working. Both of my iDevices won't find my MacBook
Info:
iPad Wifi 3rd Gen
iPhone 5
MacBook Pro 15" (mid 2011)
Hope that anyone has a solution or Apple comes up with a solution

My itunes wasnt recognizing either my or my husbands phones via wifi either, I took the suggestion of others and reconnected to wifi, didnt work. What ended up working for me was going into network preferences on the mac, and than advanced and deleting my network from the list of preferred networks, turning on wifi on my mac, quitting itunes, turning wifi on my mac back on, reconnecting to my network and opening up itunes. Just synced a song to my iphone via wifi no problem. Odd workaround but hopefully that helps you. I am running osx 10.8.2 and my phones are on ios 6.0.1

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Hey thanks for reading havent checked other sections of this forum so hoping this is in the correct place
as you can tell with the title im having problems with wifi sync on both my iphone 4s and ipad 2 both on latest firmwares as is my itunes and i have tried and tried looking for solutions on the internet and on this forum but nothing ever works for me i have actually tried everything iv read like removing ipod photo cache, removing hyphen, out of my imacs name, turn firewall off everything!
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