ITV no longer connects Home Share, and Netflix crashes mid movie. This worked on Christmas - day two flop

I know... I searched the forum and this is a very hot topic. But I am not a techie and really don't want to reconfigure my iMac System energy preferences to tell the computer to 'never sleep' and to deselect the 'Put the hard disk(s) to sleep whenever possible.' - which was one support forum posters "fix".
Why did this work Christmas day? I had already updated iTunes to 11.0.1 (12) before we opened and installed iTV. Upon initial setup of iTV we allowed the system to install an update. Everything was functional. We set it up up on our wifi, we created the passcode that iTV needed in settings. We used the AirPlay with iPad 3 and with an iPhone 4s; all very cool. I could access my iMac through iTV. No glitches. Everything worked as it should.
Today we have had nothing but Netflix and that isn't working well. It crashed twice earlier in the day on a short documentary and tonight it happened again 30 minutes into a movie and we had to restart, fortunately it was near where it crashed so we only had to re-watch a few minutes of the movie.
All day iTV has had the error message when you try and operate any Apple based function that 'Home Sharing needs to be turned on in iTunes...' well, my iMac is always on (I know, some of you will cringe. I shut it down about once a month.) and we repeatedly checked iTunes throughout the day and Home Sharing is ON..... is this random performance what we have to look forward to?
If it is some inefficiency in our wifi (another forum posters 'fix'), why was it not an issue on Christmas day? It can't work flawlessly one day and act like a demented PC the next. Come on APPLE. This is not what we expect of your products. iTV is not a new roll out. Bug fix? Software update? Ideas? Someone? Anyone? Thanks...
Apple TV Model A1427 802.11n wi-Fi HDMI 1080p

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