Connection on Airplay keeps dropping, suspect caused by IOS 7

So I have got it to be very stable, bought the Apple Extreme Router (worth every penny). I find it very stable when I do not use mirroring and extrememly stable when I just play Music from my itunes etc.

Less stable when I try to mirror Slacker Radio or such but better when I do not move around the device that is being mirrored.

The Apple Extreme Router is amazing tech with directional antennas. The device optimizes the signal to the device it is communicating with by analyzing the best path from the four antennas it has. Further it has the new 802.11AC standard which doubles the bandwith of 802.11N as more and more new devices (like next gen Apple products) use it. It is essentially 2 "N" channels. And did I mention it is a cool looking typical Apple design that you would be proud to have in plain sight on your desk? Well it is lol

Is the extreme substantially better than a relatively new Time Capsule? That's what we have and it works fine for most of the house. Don't know what settings though, I'm not a tech, I'm a consumer. Just turned it on, like the lighting zapped one it replaced. Like I said, no problems streaming from a NAS.

Follow up on one solution---

A couple days later I decided to turn on the airport wireless of my iMac 27" where my iTunes lives, that is also hooked in via ethernet to my FIOS router.

Droppage and all the other problems in my post above were instantly solved. While Airplay is supposed to be able to work through the Wi-Fi router it performs very poorly in my case. But switching on the iMac's seems to create a reliable connection.

frankthesurf

14-Jan-2014 15:30

I had a problem with my Apple TV dropping the connection to my ipad. I posted the issue on here and had many answers but still had the issue.

I discovered the problem and resolved it by accident.

I was using a wireless extender as we live in an old cottage to boost the wifi signal. The Apple TV was tuned into this but what I isn't realise was that after several minutes it would automatically change the network to pick up the signal form the main router!

Please note that it made no difference if I wired the Apple TV to the ext router!

I resolved the issue by relocating both the router and the extender and voila, now it works a treat.

Hope this helps someone

iPad 2, iOS 7

I am having the issue with my iPad 4 when attempting to airplay at my home. My wife has the same model of iPad, both completely updated, and she does not have an issue of the airplay dropping. On the other hand, I can use airplay for hours at a friend's house with little, or rarely a problem. There seems to be no regularity to my issue other than my iPad seems to have the issue at home between 5 and 8 PM while my wife does not have an issue. We have an Apple TV 3, also fully updated. It is not a network problem as everything else works great on my network and my wife's is air playing just fine. Apple TV is hooked up to Internet via wifi, not hard wired. Any other suggestions?

I am still having the occasional problem but no ware near as bad as it was. I changed my router to fixed channels and when it drops out now all I do is restart my Apple TV and that seems to cure it for a while. Hope this helps.

I'm also having this problem. Incredibly frustrating that just a couple days before "upgrading" my Ipad 4 to iOS7 I had no issue and could use airplay for hours...now I'm lucky to get 3 minutes of pandora.

^ Multiple pages of similar occurrences indicates the obvious issue. I as well am ending up crying in a forum about defects. Apple, read. Less than a 5 minute window of a products use is a defect. Your update, it seems, has altered something unintentionally, r&d?

Yesterday I bought an Apple TV and airport express, both devices mainly for streaming music. I hooked everything up and got it all working using my iPhone 4S (iOS 7) and iPad 3 (iOS 7).

Airplay from my MacBook and iPhone work perfectly but every so often, at different time intervals, my iPad drops the airplay connection.

It would seem there is not much one can do about it is there? My wifi network is up and running perfectly, my wired devices are connected perfectly... Only my iPad has issues when using airplay to either the airport express or Apple TV.

Updated my iPad and since then no dropping of the airplay signal. There are momentary lapses as if the signal is interrupted but the stream continues.

I have to agree here. I've been "off the grid" for a couple of months - everything was working fine in January, and now in April, the AirPlay connection from my iPad fails at frequent intervals.

And, yes, I updated everything when I came back online.

iPad 2 / Apple TV 2.

I was having the same problem.

I found another post that suggested turning off Bluetooth on my iPad.

Amazingly this seems to have help......for now.

I finally had to switch out my Wi-Fi router from the FIOS actiontech N to a Buffalo AC1750 set up as an Acess Point. Problem totally solved and network speeds many times faster! I hear the Apple Airport Extreme is also a highly recommended upgrade. Not a single drop in 3 months of operation.

Two things happened at the same time. One of them fixed the Ipad airplay problem. I did the new update on Apple TV and since my router is upstairs, I got a wireless extender downstairs. No more problems.

This has been driving me mad too...very irritating indeed...it is an ios problem as far as I am concerned as it worked perfectly before... Updated apple tv doesnt help.