ITunes Sharing Not Working After Years of Working Great

After many years of iTunes Home Sharing working great with an old Mac Mini and a large shared library of music and videos, I decided it was time to upgrade the system with a new Mac Mini (bought a few weeks ago) with a nice OWC external hard drive for the data.
I am now having problems sharing on all devices.  On AppleTV it has trouble finding the shared library.
On another Mac in my home it shows the shared libary in iTunes, but when you click on it to use it it gets stuck on "Loading".
The only thing that solves the problem is for me to go to the iTunes computer and shut off and restart iTunes.  That will then work for a period of time (not very long) and then we go back to the problem.
I have checked all the settings and nothing seems to be wrong.
I am using the latest versions of everything.
Any ideas?
David

Hi Roger,
Tell us what silly Belkin you have please.
If it has Ping Blocking then turn that Off.
If it has DOS (Denial of Service) Turn that Off.
Same with anything for SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection)
If this is Cable I can't see that "Too Far from the Exchange" is even relevant.
What Internet Speeds (UP and Down) are you getting ?
http://www.speedtest.net/
This page may also help.
Defcom and I are in Table 2
http://www.ralphjohns.co.uk/ContactTesters.html
8:50 PM Tuesday; April 6, 2010
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