Apple TV Drops from Home Sharing

Now I have connect my router with Ethernet to my iMac

Atv is connect with wifi

All work fine

No disconnect problem

Try this solution

Ciao from Italy

Well, since my problems are the same I''l just add my name to list of people who have found that this product does not work EVEN close to how it is advertised (and not as well as other lesser quality systems). Souring on the whole Apple experience!

That worked for me for a while too. I am now back to the same problem. One thing I have noticed is that if the entire show has streamed to the ATV then it doesn't seem to drop the connection.

I am posting to possibly several lists with issues with the ATV and homesharing-- Through much random trouble shooting I found time and date needs to be accurate on ATV and Computer-- Sure nuff ATV is wrong, I changed, off of auto and put in Dallas (my localist) It worked! Few minutes later it changed on it's own to Chicago-- I changed it back, this time no worky-- Went back again to general few min later and my time zone changed to Chicago AGAIN!!! Time zone is an issue. From what I have seen many are on Lion, I am not, intel duo won't go and I am holding out for newer Imac. So Lion is not cause. I was having some photo transfer issues before update, and updated and this is what I got-- Only network ability no homesharing. Need an American Apple tech to read this and give a flip.

I deleted my itunes.plist files yesterday and the ATV worked for one tv show then back to the same old crap again. Any more ideas out there?

I'm having the same problems everyone else is having with the ATV. I just bought mine last Wednesday and it keeps disconnecting from Home Sharing after 5-10 minutes. I can play Netflix movies fine, it's just when I want to play my music, podcasts, and movies I have in iTunes. Very frustrating.

I bought an Apple TV a few days ago and had the same problems described here ... Initially, although it could play Netflix content, tha ATV could not see my computer (Sony VAIO Laptop) at all. I tried the various solutions suggested here and in other posts (hard-wire the ATV to the router, delete iTunes plist file, etc.). Eventually, ATV saw my computer and was able to play iTunes content and view photos, but the connection would drop after five minutes every time. I also was not able to use AirPlay from my iPad 2 - no icon to push the content.

After a few more web searches, I happened upon a "Troubleshooting Home Sharing" page on the Apple Support site (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972). I went through the checklist and The "Check Firewall Settings" resolved all issues with the ATV ("open TCP ports 123 and 3689 as well as UDP ports 123 and 5353"). I logged on to my FiOS router and assigned the ATV a static IP address and port-forwarded the ports listed in the checklist. I can now play any iTunes content from my laptop wirelessly (I still have the ATV hard-wired to the router, I've not yet tried that without the ehternet cable since I did the port forwarding - why mess with perfection?) and I can AirPlay from my iPad (pretty much anything except HBO GO - thanks HBO!).

ATV now works flawlessly and I'm quite the happy camper.

Hey folks, rather simplistic fix, but its working for me...I went into the system preferences and turned the automatic sleep functions off (under the Energy Saver section). I was only getting a few minutes of each movie, I have now run one for 20 plus minutes with no issue. Will attempt with a few more and advise if this continues to work.

Hi, i have the same problem but me is more like after a couple of hour. I'm pretty shure that the problem is with itunes, cause i have the problem with 2 ATV(2), 1 ATV(3) and the Ipad2 and when i restart itunes it work. It's not a problem with the network or the router( airport extrem). I try restarting the router, changing the energy saver, restarting the computer, clearing the cache of everything... and the only thing that seem to work for a while is restarting itunes. And the problem begin with the last update of itunes 10.6.1(7). So please apple stop blaming everybody else, sometimes you are the problem.

Just an update from my previous post. Sure enough a few days ago I logged into my Belkin router and it told me there were updates available. I read the release notes and it specifically mentioned fixes for airplay problems. I did the update and have had no issues since then. Hopefully this will help a few of you out there.

Has there been any answers to this issue becuase my ATV3 is doing the samething

Same thing for me.

My ATV2 is plugged into the router that the iTunes machine is plugged into.

The show will play for between 1 minute and about 10 and then Home Sharing goes away. The entire show is cached in the memory (the progress bar is completely filled in white). That must mean that the connection to the Credit Card Processing system at Apple has been interrupted.

I own the show. It's on my server. In iTunes. I'd like to watch it. Once it is fully cached into the ATV memory I should be able to unplug the ethernet cable and still keep watching, right? Nope.

This only started after the most recent update. Last week everything worked fine. Nothing has changed in my network. It was just a software update.

Apple should allow us to roll back one version of the firmware.

How do I return all my Apple Products?

Hi all I can see this has been a problem for a bit of time, is there a reliable fix on the way? I have all Apple gear apart from the a Motorola modem and now every five minutes both my ATV's drop out, this only started yesterday, restarting Home sharing fixes the problem for the another 5 minutes.

There are 5 pages of this issue and no proper answer that I can find within the discussion. Getting up every five minutes to turn off and on Home Sharing is not a fix.

Please Apple at least tell us there is a problem that you are looking into or something. I get the whole 'never admit fault' marketing BS but really???? .... you have millions of loyal apple-philes that scream your praises at every opportunity, it would be so much better to at least give us some minor info to say someone is looking into it.

I have been having better stability since disabling the IPV6 setting. I have also moved my network closer to the ATV. It still drops occassionally but I just restart and it is usually fine for a bit. Clearly there is a problem that Apple needs to deal with here.

Has anyone that has been experiencing this issue tried the software update (Apple TV 5.0.1) that was released yesterday? If so, has it resolved your problem?