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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)

Posted on May 19, 2013 4:51 PM

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Posted on May 19, 2013 5:06 PM

AppleTV 2/3 require brief connections to iTunes servers to authorise playback of protected content streamed from a local iTunes but your set up should be more than adequate as this is done at the start of playback. This makes it impossible to use an AppleTV/computer for playback when on holiday where there is no internet connectivity - annoying as the computer will usually playback from iTunes without this problem (so I hook up a Mac Mini to a TV usually if on holiday).


I assume you are playing back from the menus under the Computers icon which is for Home Sharing.


If you are tryong to play prior purchases via the main Movis/TV Shows icons Purchased sections then those options stream from the internet not the local iTunes library.


AC

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Alley_Cat
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May 19, 2013 5:06 PM in response to markjaz

AppleTV 2/3 require brief connections to iTunes servers to authorise playback of protected content streamed from a local iTunes but your set up should be more than adequate as this is done at the start of playback. This makes it impossible to use an AppleTV/computer for playback when on holiday where there is no internet connectivity - annoying as the computer will usually playback from iTunes without this problem (so I hook up a Mac Mini to a TV usually if on holiday).


I assume you are playing back from the menus under the Computers icon which is for Home Sharing.


If you are tryong to play prior purchases via the main Movis/TV Shows icons Purchased sections then those options stream from the internet not the local iTunes library.


AC

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Does Home Sharing to Apple TV require a live internet connection?

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