More ATV V2.3 Update Problems

Question

Does anyone from Apple look at these discussions? The V2.3 update made my ATV a useless brick. Like an idiot I blindly said yes to update the software when prompted by my ATV. After the update:
- I could no longer watch my synced movies without a lot of stuttering (almost like I was streaming it over a really slow connection.
- My synced music was also very slow to respond to playing.
- ATV would drop off iTunes device list and lock up ATV and iTunes ... like it was in a never ending loop trying to reconnect.
- I got errors that purchased iTunes music was not authorized to play on this Apple TV.
I tried to remedy by disconnecting from my PC and reconnecting and resync ... after it sat all night trying to sync one movie, i disconnected again and did a factory restor back to v2.0. now i don't have any of the advantages of later releases but everythign seems to be workign fine - with the odd exception that all of my movies synced, even the ones that were unchecked. it had to be the v2.3 update.
I suppose there's no way to get back to 2.2 ... which for me worked great.

Answer 1

I couldn't find the other longer thread about this, so for anyone having the same problems with V2.3, it appears that I stumbled across a fix for me this weekend I wanted to share.
I was having some of the same issues with V2.0 after doing a factory restore that I had briefly with v2.3. So I thought I'd give v2.3 another try and see if i could trace down the problem. When I updated to v2.3 again, it completely locked my system up (iTunes, Router, AppleTV, ...), and again felt, well, like an idiot for updating. But one by one I took my systems down and restarted. After taking down my network, it had lost power and reset to factory settings ... i.e., no security, broadcasting SSID, etc (not sure at what point this happened, but noticed it after setting up my wireless connection to Apple TV). After I set up my security again and turned off SSID broadcast, and restarted iTunes and Apple TV, the problems were better. but I still had a lot of stuttering trying to stream movies, and occasionally would get the error cannot read format on the movies I copied to iTunes using Handbrake. What i discovered was happening is that my wireless network was timing out with my computers i had streaming content to Apple TV. Apple TV connection was never lost, but instead of saying "lost connection to wireless network" or something useful like that, Apple TV would give these vague errors that it could not read movie format, or couldn't play the selected song.
So - here was my set up and here's what i did.
- Apple TV software v2.3 wirelessly connected to my network.
- Synced with Laptop running windows XP and newest v of iTunes. Synced library content to Apple TV wirelessly.
- Also streamed 2 other libraries from a PC and Mac Book Pro
the fix
- Apple TV still connected to network wirelessly.
- Wireless network with WEP password security.
- Connected my main synced library on Windows XP PC to network with Ethernet cable.
- Sync only pictures and titles, but stream all other content - that seemed to help a lot.
- Stream some content from a MacBook Pro.
After this new set up, all is working great. Never any stuttering, and no vague errors. The two things that seemed to help the most were connecting my main PC to ethernet as opposed to wirelessly and only loading the minimal amount of information on the Apple TV and streaming the rest. why none of this happened with V2.2, I don't know ... maybe it was all a coincidence, but it does seem like updating to v2.3 did something to my network and maybe resting that and starting over was part of the solution.
hope this helps.