TS2972 Since upgrading Apple TV to 5.1, home sharing works for 2 minutes

My setup has been working for ages, but ever since I upgraded my living room Apple TV to 5.1, it looses it's connection to home sharing after 2 minutes.
Running OS-X 10.7.3 with iTunes 10.6.  Netgear N600 (WNDR7300 v2) router on Comcast.
This is happening with newly ripped as well as older ripped movies that I've purchased and converted using local tools, all stored locally on my Mac.
I first started experiencing this with my setup today, where I'd play a movie and then 2 minutes later, it would quit and my computer would no longer appear in the Apple TV computers list.  I then go to my Mac, turn off Home Sharing, then turn it back on - and viola, it's back again - for two more minutes.
I had updated my Netgear from 10.0.0.8 to 10.0.0.12 recently, but have since reversed that upgrade - the issue remains.
I've tested this also by using my remote app from my iphone, and again, the connection appears okay until I start using it - then after 2 minutes of playback, it loses its connection.  Is iCloud cutting off my iTunes on purpose? is Comcast? I have no idea what's going on to cause this.

Okay, so here's what I've found so far:
So I've done a number of tests on both my Apple TV's - the bedroom unit worked fine - it wirelessly connected to a cheap wifi-N AP (netgear $20 refurb from Microcenter) and it was upgraded by plugging directly into my Mac using a USB cable.
My living room unit, experiencing this issue, was plugged into an ethernet port and was upgraded through the IOS update feature.  Any movie played through Home Sharing would fail after 2-3 minutes.  In some cases, like with ******* 3D, I couldn't even finish watching the titles of the film before losing the connection.
This was happening on all my Home Sharing setups - both on the PC and the Mac that have libraries their share - both before and after upgrading to the latest iTunes on both.
I tried resetting the living room unit by plugging it into the iTunes and doing a factory restore.  Once it was done, I put it back online - and connected it to the same WiFi as the bedroom unit.  All tests passed.  Was easily able to play things that couldn't stream before the latest update.
Once I plugged in the ethernet cable, it shut down the WiFi link and then started exhibiting the connection drop once again.
I then unplugged ethernet, re-connected to that AP and have been working since.  Nothing in the packet capture I have shows what happens to the connection - I see lots of DAAP protocol going back and forth - then out of nowhere, the Apple TV starts pouring out a pile of RST packets and that's when the connection drops.  In order to look at this more closely, I'd have to put a sniffer on the LAN and run this through a network switch that has packet capture abilities - not something I possess at the moment.
For now I'd advise that folks run wireless or wireless through a third gateway if you can.
Cheers!

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