Keeps losing connection to Home Sharing

Hi,
My Apple TV keeps losing it's connection to my Home sharing library! I have my iTunes account always open and sitting on my iMac which is on 24/7. I can connect to my home share even if the iMac is sleeping or my wife is logged on to the network.
My problem is when I sit down to watch a film or view photo's etc it keeps telling me that I must turn on home sharing which is on! The only thing I can do is then turn it off and then back on. All is then good.
I have not managed to see why it loses connection but I know it's not when the iMac sleeps or someone else logs onto it.
Anyone else having the same problems?

Strange, as I have two of the last generation (720p) AppleTVs. I recently upgraded the WRT160 I spoke of in the previous post to a Linksys E2500 and have had no issues whatsoever. I even went so far as connect my Apple TVs to the new 5ghz wireless band on the new router and it works perfectly always. Never, ever drops connections.
I still believe your router (lacks uPnP) is to blame. I looked around briefly and it seems the Airport Express and some older Airports don't even have support for uPnP. One thing you can try to test my theory, is to assign a static IP to one of your Apple TVs and forward port TCP/UDP 5678 to it as a test. My guess is that your Airport is closing this connection after a period of time causing your loss of connectivity to home sharing.
Another thought is to go to your local retailer (or Amazon, etc.) and purchase any of the E series Linksys routers. These seem to work flawlessly with Apple products and home sharing implementation. Another plus to this angle is you will get QoS which all Apple routers lack and is increasingly important these days. I personally have all the following connected to my Linksys and never had so much as an issue:
(2) Apple TVs (5ghz band)
(2) iPhones
New iPad (5ghz band)
3 D-Link wireless cameras
VOIP Phone
Hackintosh
Macbook Air
(2) Wireless to wired Ethernet bridges
Good luck with your issue and please post back if any of my suggestions work.

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