Speakers dropping off while streaming music from my Apple TV

I use my Apple TV to stream music to 5 locations around my house ( wired to Airport express with a powerline ethernet adaptor). recently I find that 2 or 3 locations jut disappear from my speaker list and randomly turn on and off again .
I also use my IMAC to stream music and have less of a problem with that .

I use several wifi networks to overcome potential problems caused by distance, interference and excessive traffic, I'd suggest you look at your current network to see if you can't improve it or at least optimise some settings.

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