About 5-6 weeks ago I bought an AppleTV 2. To date I’d only been using Internet radio and a bit of music AirPlay from the iPad. There were a few drop out problems, but nothing I couldn’t live with.

Last week I bought an Elgato Turbo.264HD and converted a whole lot of movies to AppleTV format. When I went to access them via Home Sharing, it was basically a complete fail. The access was so slow, and videos simply wouldn’t play.

After a quick Google I found I wasn’t the only person that had struck this problem. It’s plagued the ATV2 from day dot it appears.
The more reason posts on the Apple support forum however had some success stories. What’s the fastest fix?

Set your wireless network to 5GHz only. All of a sudden the ATV2 started playing videos and movies. What’s more, all my wireless gear like the iPhones and iPads have stepped up in performance, especially when playing YouTube videos etc.

The next thing I might do is look around for an unused channel using iStumble. When we first moved into this neighbourhood it was all old people. Now there’s far more young people, all with wireless. I’ve gone from no hotspots to about 6 I can see!

Hope this info helps out some others.

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