Problems using home sharing....

Hey guys, I have home sharing activated on my iMac, and use it to share to my iPads and macbook pro.... my question is:  I have setup my iMac not to turn off (Only the screen) and I leave iTunes running..... but sometimes when i try to use home sharing it doesnt show up in list of devices on my macbook pro or in the music/video apps on my ipad.... but... when I restart my modem/router its all working again..... any reasons why i would need to restart my modem/router to get my imac to show on sharing?...... its a Thompson one, connected by ethernet cable to the imac.... any help is great appreciated cause im sick of the restarts....

What router are you using?
Can you plug the iMack into ethernet and turn off wireless even if it is just a test with wires all over the place.. as that helps to figure out the problem.
Did you upgrade install Yosemite?? If so would a clean install be out of the question.
Some of these problems happen on every release.. so it is nothing new. Just a pain that apple didn't learn from their own beta testers that things were not working and so delay the release.. and that all the same issues were happening with Mavericks and still not fixed.
I strongly recommend to use all short names, no spaces and pure alphanumeric for everything in the network.. not apple names..
Fred Blob's iMack
Can be reduced to a share name of FBIMack (no spaces and no apostrophe).
Fred Blob's Airport Time Capsule
Is even worse.. so fix it to TCgenx (x can be the actual gen number)
Fred Blob's Airport Wireless
Make it TCwifi
Doesn't matter what you use.. just as long as it meets the rules.

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