Does Home Sharing to Apple TV require a live internet connection?
I am using Home Sharing through iTunes 11.0.3 on a MacBook Pro to an 3rd-gen AppleTV hooked up to an HDTV. The MacBook Pro and the AppleTV are on a wireless network hosted by an Airport Extreme base station.
Every 15 minutes or so, the Airport Extreme drops the network. The content I was watching stops playing, the TV says "not connected" and all my other connected devices show that the network is down.
A couple of minutes later the network "comes back", my AppleTV reconnects to my iTunes library and I can resume playing whatever content I was viewing before the interruption.
My console log shows sequences like this:
May 18 16:21:40 MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 4 (Disassociated due to inactivity).
May 18 16:22:30 MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Up on en1
May 18 16:22:30 MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1
This never happens if the AppleTV is not on the network.
An Apple advisor told me I don't have sufficient bandwidth to the Internet to run an AppleTV - I have a satellite Internet service that gives me 2 - 3 Mbps. But - who cares? All I am trying to do is move data across my internal Wifi network from the MacBook Pro to the AppleTV. I do not understand why Internet bandwidth has anything to do with it.
Apple TV (3rd Generation)