Streaming movies freeze, pause and re-buffer amm the time

Hi to all.
When I stream movies to my Apple TV 2.3.1 (i.e. the movies are not synced and copied to aTV's hdd) I constantly have a pause after a few minutes, then the aTV rebuffers (blue bar filling up on the bottom of the screen) plays for a few minutes then rebuffers again, then plays, etc...
I have an N only (5GHz) WiFi network connecting my iMac to an Airport Express base station,to the apple TV.
Is there anything I can do?

sounds like you have a slow network... could be interference with the wireless signal (neighbors WiFI, other 5GHz devices, more walls, long distance etc)
try this...
open activity monitor and go to networking
set a movie to sync to the appleTV, then initiate the sync
in activity monitor you can see what kind of transfer rates you are getting
5GHz is faster (do you have wide bands enabled to get the speed boost?) but over a shorter distance and more apt to be affected by walls, floors etc.. 2.4GHz is better in this respect but more apt to be effected by other 2.4GHz devices because more wireless devices, WiFi networks etc work in this radio band.
1st figure out if your network is slow..

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