How do I get my Apple TV to view movies if there is no Internet connect but my router and home network is fine, but my IP's drops connection always without fail twice a month for 5 hours?

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Randall.H Author

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How do I get my Apple TV to view movies if there is no Internet connect but my router and home network is fine, but my IP's drops connection always without fail twice a month for 5 hours?

I have an ISP that goes down two or three times a month like a hooker with a hundred dollar bill.

How in the crap do I keep the I tunes movies that I've purchased. And backed up to my Server which also shares a

Folder on the main Computer on a 10(TB) Hard-drive. I have two windows. Windows PC's three Apple computers

And 4 NAS BOXES,

I HAVE almost every type of computer you can imagine, to include NOTEBOOKS.

the (Network Access Storage). Have several different ones from hardware to software, or intel to D--Link.

With a total of 64 TB in hard drives, not that it matters but the boo tables are using firmware boot drives

Apple TV (3rd generation), Windows 7, Running 4 different software we

Posted on Jun 30, 2013 6:07 AM

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Alley_Cat

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Jun 30, 2013 7:21 AM in response to Randall.H

In iTunes Preferences you should be able to change the location of where media is stored to any accessible local or network drive.

You can also store media in several locations once downloaded by re-adding files store on other drived by reference rather than copying to teh iTunes media folder (once things are in iTunes, find them in the iTunes folder, copy to the desired destination drive, then delete from within iTunes interface itself - next re-add the files by reference. This used to work by holding alt or similar when dragging and dropping to the itunes icon or setting iTunes Preferences not to copy on import).

The issue for AppleTV is that when the internet goes down it won't be able to authorise the locally streamed media to play - also you'll need at least one computer running to stream via Home Sharing. Even if you put media on a NAS iTunes is a helper app that fetched the media being played and sends it to AppleTV. NAS itunes servers don't work for Home Sharing.

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