Why does home sharing on my ATV disconnect?

I use my ATV Gen 2 about once a week. When I turn it on and go to the Computers menu, I get a message telling me to turn on home sharing on my computer. But home sharing is on already on both my iMac and my ATV. I have to turn it off and turn it back on in iTunes to get it working properly, but then a few days later when I come back to the ATV I have the same problem all over again. My network is Verizon FIOS using the Verizon supplied cable modem with a built in n router. Other computers on the network are working fine.

I have this issue as well... It's extremely frustrating. Especially since no one seems to know how to fix it.
From what I can tell, the video isn't streaming to the iDevice quickly enough, so it keeps pausing. My setup at home is all my iTunes library is on a separate HDD connected to my mac via USB and streamed to my iPad via our WiFi. I don't know if travelling through so many devices would slow it down enough to cause it to keep pausing, especially with HD movies. The funny thing is, it works fine between my iMac and my MacBook, so it's the iPad/iPhone that's to blame.
All I can suggest is what I've been doing, which is by no means a solid solution since it sometimes helps the issue and sometimes makes no difference. I restart my iPad/iPhone and I restart iTunes and keep network traffic to a minimum. I've also converted allot of my movies and TV shows to a lower bitrate in the hope that they will play smoother, at a sacrifice of image quality...
To be honest, what I tend to do at the moment is just sync a movie to my iPad when I'm near the computer then, when I'm done, delete it to save space.
I'm afraid that's all I can do to help... I really hope iOS 5 does something to fix this issue since I use home sharing allot and I hate it when it decides not to work.

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