Wifi and appletv

can't connect to appletv through wifi connection

You have to connect both the ATV unit and the device to the same WiFi connection, Keep in mind that the best Wifi for ATV and Your device to connect together and work smoothlhy is WiFi N.

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The Apple sales rep told me I could use Airplay Mirroring between my iPad2 and AppleTV 2 via bluetooth and I didn't need wifi. Is that true?

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Using ipad2 and airplay with appleTV; can I have the ipad2 on wifi and the AppleTV on a wired port of the same router in order to use airplay?

can I have the ipad2 on wifi and the AppleTV on a wired port of the same router in order to use airplay?

I belive you can, I think my friends Apple TV is connected to their internet via an Ethernet cable, and we use Airplay sometimes using our iPads that are connected to the same network via WiFi. It should work as long as they are both connected to the same network. However, I don't have an Apple TV of my own, so don't take this as a solid answer.

Best wifi set up for multiple routers and appletvs

Hi, just got the new June 2013 "tower" airport extreme in my ongoing quest to improve non ethernet wifi in my large house (lots of bathrooms and solid block walls, no cable)
Trying to figure out best set up for the various routers and whether or not to use "Bridge" mode. Have the following
New tower airport extreme
2 x older airport extremes
3 airports
5 apple tvs each in a different room for streaming media to 5 televisions
SO planning to factory re-set all my old airports and then install the tower airport in prime receiving position. It will recieve the wifi signal via an ethernet cable from the "radio" on my roof which receives my internet signal. (Actually faster than most wired internet in the small town I live in).
Tower = main receiver and distributor of internet
1 x older airport extreme distributing this signal further into the house - SHOULD THIS BE IN BRIDGE MODE?
2 or more others distributing the signal from the older airport extreme further into the house - SHOULD THEY ALSO BE IN BRIDGE MODE?
I'm very unclear on the benefit of bridge mode. Currently all my routers operate freely and are just extenders - not in bridge mode. Devices just hook into whatever router is nearest - some of which show Excellent wifi and the furtherest show only "Good wifi. I have one room at the very end of my house where the wifi is pretty weak.
Any comments on set up or especially the value of Bridge mode and whether all down-stream routers should be bridged or just extended much appreciated. I guess there is a possibility that I place the 2 older extremes in two main extending locations. One for one section of the house and the other to receive the signal direct from the Tower Airport Extreme to distribute the other end of the house section. So should they both be bridged....?

When an AirPort is properly configured to extend the wireless range of another, it is automatically reconfigured into Bridge mode.
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The key here is to understand that the extended network works in a wheel-like fashion with the base station being extended at the hub of the wheel and each of the extending ones on one of the spokes. This should help you plan the best placement of each base station for maximum performance. For more details on optimum placement, please see the following AirPort User Tip.

My wife and I share our Mac OS 10.6.8 since downloading Skype on her account she can not stay connected to any web site she pulls up. I removed Skype from here account but it stll happens. What can I do to clear this up?

My wife and I share the same Mac OS 10.6.8 and since downloading Skype on her accout she came not asty connected to any web site for more than a few seconds. I have remove Skype from her account but not mine. I don't have the problem on my accout and I still have Skype loaded. How can I fix this problem?

O.k. Thanks for the clarification. I poked around in my TimeCapsule router's settings (TimeCapsule is an Apple Airport Extreme router with attached hard drive for wireless backup/storage). Unfortunately, it doesn't look like I can disable multicasting with the TimeCapsule. I can change the multicasting 'rate'. Settings are Low, Medium, High. It's currently set to Low.
I did a few web searches, and found an Apple.com article: <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3789?viewlocale=en_US> which explained how to disable Bonjour Service Advertisements. I believe this is the same thing as 'Multicasting'. The process is a modification of "/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist", and a restart of the Mac is required afterwards.
I'm a bit concerned that disabling multicasting will interfere with my AppleTVs and iTunes music sharing, but I may try it next time I'm up for a computer workout. This task will require editing of system preference files, could require multiple restarts, might interfere with my AppleTVs, could interfere with my iTunes file sharing, doesn't have a documented relationship to my problem.
This is way to difficult for something that should just work. Did you say you had read something about a relationship between this bonjour multicasting and smb connectivity? If it was online could you post the link?
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My wife and I have separate Ids but all our music is in one library. How will this work with iCloud?

My wife and I have separate Ids but all our music is in one library. How will this work with iCloud? i'm trying to download past purchases from her id, but itunes is saying that I can't because the computer is associated with my apple id. Can I associate the computer with both ids for the purpose of identifying all of our music with both or just one of our ids? Is there a good way to do this? I'm sure we're not the only people with this problem...
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My wife and I want to sync/share videos

My wife and each have a computer, + iPhone + iPad + AppleTV of course. We'd like to share videos, but we are finding it next to impossible. If I have a movie on my system, I can sync it to AppleTV, but she can't sync her movies. Most of these are either rips of DVDs she has (Friends episodes) or lots of home movies I've created, or home movies she's done of our son. The problem is that she creates a movie, and she can't sync it, which means she needs to send it to me, and then I need to sync it, which is just twenty steps too much, as we now have a bunch of copies of the movie. Couple this with music, pictures, and everything else. Then, we have to deal with moving them to the iPad if we want to bring it with us.
We have the AppleTV, which we though would be a nice central hub of media that we could save to, and take from, but apparently you can't do this by default. AppleTV is for one person homes?
So, here is what we'd like to do, easily.
My wife and I have media we'd like to play on our TV at times via AppleTV. We'd also like to be able to put this media on our iPhones/iPad and take it with us. How can we do this? It's really simple what we want, and we can't fathom how it can be difficult at all to do this, when we can easily share a video with friends and family on Facebook.

jasonlotito wrote:
First, yes, I'm aware of AppleTV's syncing problem. Streaming seems like a good solution for part of the problem, though that still leaves the problem of syncing to other devices: iPad/iPhone.
Streaming is great actually as it gets over the 160GB drive limitation in AppleTV (actually most of mine are 40GB AppleTVs, and I just stream things to them).
Downside is you need iTunes running as AppleTV cannot access files directly, as all data moves to it /from it via iTunes (except AppleTV's internet intercations).
The Home Sharing seems like an interesting solution. I'll explore that.
It should allow you to play/access media on different computers via iTunes but I don't think it will allow you to sync to iPhone/iPad/AppleTV from another user's library. Someone who regularly uses it will be able to clarify.
The network storage thing is also interesting. With so many devices, it might be a good idea to centralize all the stuff.
That's the idea - to centralize stuff on the network and allow multi-user access.
So, basically, we could setup a network storage device as a library separated from our own local stuff.
You wouldn't actually set the itunes library up on the network storage (you could in theory thoufgh), just use it as storage accessible to an itunes library on a computer.
Media known to the iTunes database can be stored in the actual iTunes media folder, or on any attached internal/external drives or network drives.
The setting I mentioned in iTunes determines what happens when you add a new file to iTunes - either a copy is made in teh iTunes media folder, or the itunes database just remembers it's current location without copying - so long as the location is accessible eg network/usb drive you could then sync to a device like AppleTV/iPad etc without having a copy in your itunes media folder.
We could then sync to AppleTV, iPhone, iPad, etc? And from what I remember, we could also sync to the devices what we want via the syncing control panel.
In theory yes.
If this is true, I like this idea. We could do our own personal stuff on our computer, prepare everything, and then save it to a central library we could still access. Then, sync our devices from that one central repository.
This to me seems the logical option.
Could you recommend an easy to use, large, network capable storage device that could be used for such a system?
I don't have one myself (we have several computers but I tend to handle all the media on my Mac Pro with lots of attached internal/USB/FW drives), but you have numerous options including Time Capsule from Apple that goes up to 2TB - be sure to check user reviews for these devices at places like Amazon to get a heads up on any potential issues.
The only issue with network storage is that of it being potentially (usually) slower than directly attached drives/internal drives, but this will depend on your actual network setup/speed/connection types and whether or not there's lots of concurrent traffic. Even a slow network will sync but if it's very slow streaming might not be as smooth as it might be.

IOS 5 used to allow Airplay between iPad (WiFi) and Apple TV (Ethernet) as long as they were on the same network. In iOS 6, now both the iPad and the Apple TV have to be on the same network and both have to be connected using WiFi ? Why did they change ?

iOS 5 used to allow Airplay between iPad (WiFi) and Apple TV (Ethernet) as long as they were on the same network, i.e. connected to the same wired/wireless router. In iOS 6, now both the iPad and the Apple TV have to be on the same network and both have to be connected using WiFi ? Why did they change this ? Means that the iPad and the Apple TV box both have to be in range of the wireless router when this wasn't a restriction before. Apple TV could be anywhere as long as it was connected to the same wireless router via ethernet cable. Seems like an unnecessary thing to restrict.

I have found with AppleTV that it is the IPV6 on the computer you want to access is the problem. The issue is that Homegroup on Win 7 or Win 8 requires IPV6 to work, but AppleTV won't work with IPV6. (So maybe double check you have IPV6 turned off)
So you have to make a choice - Homegroup or AppleTV.... but you can't have both, until Apple brings ATV up to date. (crazy that it does not recognise IPV6 - c'mon Apple!)
You can set up sharing individually in Win 7 or 8 and have the ATV access files that way.
Having said that, there is always the exception.. I have an old HP home server running Win8 and it services ATV - but is part of the Homegroup... have no idea why it works on both, but no other machine on the home network will talk to both ATV and Homegroup at the same time!

Serious Sync issues between iTunes 8.0.2 and AppleTV 2.3

Please Help,
Everything was just wonderful until several weeks back when the AppleTV started having sync issues that seem to have degraded into oblivion. Rebooted everything, checked all software loads, tried many of the suggestions (no blocking network / firewall issues) and have even tried adding redundant port allows for any and all ports I could find going in / out of Apple TV. But to no avail there seems to be a bug that got introduced somewhere with the sync mechanisms.
The Apple TV can purchase movies, download them fast to start playing, view youtube videos just fine and play all of the media great, So can my Mac and all media / iTunes functions work well it even syncs with my iPhone / iPods well.
However... The only way I can get the AppleTV to sync is to reboot it, then it will sync some, iTunes will just get to a forever syncing with Apple TV state (which you have to stop), reboot AppleTV again, it will sync some more, until it stops, iTunes is stuck syncing forever with AppleTV again, repeat and rinse about 4 more times and you have it all synced.
If there isn't anything to sync when AppleTV boots the Sync in iTunes just spins for ever. I actually left it for 4 days just to see if it was actually doing anything. Minimal Network IO and of course it never finished.
If I stop the Sync with Apple TV in iTunes and then try to reinitiate it from iTunes I get the 3986 port error (which is bogus) unless there is some hidden setting somewhere in the OS that I can't find. And if there was a problem then why would it start and run when I boot the Apple TV.
It just seems that all of a sudden things started going wrong with Sync with no real change other than 'software updates' .
The only thing I haven't tried is to do a factory reset on the AppleTV which from what I have read doesn't really solve anything.
So, please someone from Apple or someone with some detailed technical experience provide some guidance on whether there is a bug that got introduced, version issues between iTunes/AppleTV, or something else going that I haven't been able to figure out over the last 2 weeks.
The only other unique things that may be different is that I have my iTunes library on an external drive (not on the internal drive). Does this many any difference?
Thank You in advance to anyone that can help me get to the bottom of these issues. This started happening when I was totally sold on AppleTV and about to buy a second one.
mmilford

And it's good to know I'm not the only one with the problem too! I just cannot sync stuff from Mac to Apple TV without it locking up. It actually seems to lock the wifi also, meaning I have to quit iTunes, turn off the wifi and then turn it back on again. But as soon as I open iTunes, the same problem again...
I've tried everything I can think of, searched all help articles, but cannot sort out this somewhat annoying problem.
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Photo Quality Airplay and AppleTV 2

Hi and thanks for reading,
I just bought a 50'' Full HD TV and made some test with my Apple TV 2.
I noticed that by Air Playing my iPhone photoes I have not the same definition and quality that I have by uploading my photos from my iPhone to the TV buildin photo viewer, which on the contrary makes them looking great.
Is this due to the fact that with AppleTV 2 photoes aswell are mirrored in 720p instead of 1080p?
Can I expect to fix the issue by upgrading to an AppleTV 3 @ 1080p?
Many tnxs

There are several variables here at work.
Wireless vs Wired
Video source and original quality,
Internet Speed.
Your difference between wired and wireless is really high. Unless your wifi is heavily used, or you have interference, the difference is too high to be natural. There's probably something else there cutting your bandwidth in half when you go wireless.
The higher quality a video is, the larger its file size is going to be. Which means its going to need a better internet connection to stream reasonably, otherwise its going to stop continuously to buffer. This should in general terms not affect the actual quiality of the video, only the streaming experience.
Some sites adjust the video quality depending on the internet connection to provide a smoother stream at the cost of picture quality.
Where are you viewing these Tv shows from? If Netflix is satisfactory in terms of quality, then the MacBook is not the issue.
As far as your speed goes, its average, even a little low I would say but shouyld still be capably of streaming standard definition movies correctly. .
RWP123 wrote:
Finally to confirm: the screen resolution of the ipad has no effect on the viewed picture quality on the HD TV using airplay and AppleTV?
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Trouble using AirPlay between iMac and AppleTV

I'm running OS X Lion 10.7.5 and I'm having trouble using AirPlay between iMac and AppleTV (2nd Gen). It used to work fine, but for some reason it just stopped responding. I can see my media on my iMac from AppleTV and I can see AppleTV from my iMac when attempting to use AirPlay. However, when I try to pull or push media from my iMac to AppleTV it just stalls and never loads. AirPlay works fine from my iPhone and iPad with AppleTV - it's limited to my iMac only.
I'm using a Netgear R7000 wireless router and a Netgear AC120 WiFi Extender and as such, I have 4 available wireless networks (2 from the router and 2 from the extender / 2 - 2.4 GHz and 2 - 5 GHz). My internet access is great and my network performance is good across the board. All of my software/firmware is up to date (iMac, AppleTV and router/extenders). I've tried all combinations (mixing/matching) all of my wireless networks between devices (iMac/AppleTV) - nothing makes a difference (again, AirPlay works fine between my mobile devises/AppleTV). Netgear Genie has been making changes to my network settings as new firmware has been installed in both the router and extender. I'm guessing there is something screwy going on with the network settings on the iMac, but I can't figure it out.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!

I'm glad you got it all working. Out of interest, how do you (or your son) connect to the internet now? Is it just a dial-up connection? If it is, I am sure you know that, even if you get the Apple TV to share the connection, the speed will seriously limit the use of many of the Apple TV's features.
The Airport Extreme is a great router but you will need a DSL or cable modem as well as it won't connect to the internet without one. There are many great (and cheaper!) combined modem/routers available if your son wants to get a high-speed network up and running at lower cost. Any other computers, phones, games consoles etc that you may have in the house can then all connect easily.
I hope that I have helped a little and I will look out for future posts in case I can help again.

Firewall Message with Airtunes and AppleTV

I am using iTunes 8.02 on a Mac running Tiger 10.4.11. I like to stream my music to my AppleTV (which is running the most recent version of the firmware). My wireless router is an Airport Express (running the latest v6.3 software).
In iTunes, I see a drop down menu showing me my AppleTV. When I select it, I see a pop up warning message:
"Your Computers firewall settings will prevent you from using Airtunes.
Please check your Firewall settings
Learn More Ignore Open Firewall Settings"
I click ignore and it works!!
But Why am I getting this message?
I have followed the instructions in:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2278
I have even disabled "Stealth Mode" in Tiger's firewall suggested in the forums.
What am I missing?
Why do I still get this warning message (yet it works when I click Ignore)?
Rob

Then I would be wireless from G5 and AppleTV to the internet. But I would loose the AirTunes / Express capability?
You could only have one function at one time. (So you can't use your G5 and Apple TV on the internet while using AirTunes) as (AFAIK) the AirPort express can't be used as a 'wireless access point' at the same time as AirTunes.
To try and summarize
If you want to use AirTunes and have your computer and Apple TV connected to the same network with internet connectivity at the same time you can:
1. Purchase an AirPort Extreme base station.
2. Connect your cable modem to the AirPort extreme via ethernet, set up a WiFI network and connect your G5 and Apple TV.
3. Join your AirPort express to the AirPort extreme network via client mode.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108038#6

HT3529 My wife and I both have an iphone. We initially created it under her apple id. We will receive each others text messages from certain people not all. Any ideas why and what we can do to stop it

My wife and I both have an iphone. We initially set them up under one apple id account. When we text sometimes we will receive each others text messages from others. Example I will text a friend...she will not see my text but the reply comes to both of us. It seems to be random which ones. Any ideas how to correct this

Yup, get your own AppleID.
The messages that are being sent to both phones are technically not text, they are Apple's iMessage. They use the data part, not the texting part. So if you have an iPad or a Mac computer, you can send/receive the iMessages there too.
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My wife and I have made many purchases over several years on seperate accounts, how could we join them into one account, without losing everything?

My wife and I have made many purchases over several years on seperate accounts, how could we join them into one account, without losing everything? We both use Iphone 5's and share an Imac at home.

Purchases using one Apple ID cannot be merged or transferred to another Apple ID. Purchases are forever tied to that Apple ID used. You have to decide which Apple you want to use for purchases and stick to that Apple ID so that you can share: Settings > iTunes & App Stores > Apple ID : > use the same Apple ID here to share purchases.

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