home sharing is very slow

Hi awhiting80,

Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.

I'd recommend starting with the steps in this article if you are experiencing poor performance with Home Sharing:

Troubleshooting Home Sharing

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972

Best Regards,

Jeremy

I brought ATV3 day before yesterday, and it worked absoultely fine till today morning. Since today, there is huge delay, iTunes library on home sharing does come up, music plays with some delay, but movies do not play at all.

Also I am unable to do screen mirroring from my MBP! However, internet streaming works fine, and also Home Sharing and mirroring from my iPhone5 works fine. Only from MBP it doesn't steam or mirror!

I have done reset on ATV3, turned ON/OFF home sharing, ATV3, my router, iTunes, MBP many times, no luck!

Well, I spent long time with Apple Phone support, they made me delete the library, move some iTunes file from Library folder on my MBP but that didn't help.

I also did reset my Apple TV, and did all the settings again. No change.

I read somewhere on this forum itself I think to remove "Share my Library on local network" option from iTunes preferences, under sharing. As per the suggestion, this is an old option, and when you have home sharing on, you don't need this to be checked. More over it causes sharing to be slow. So after I unchecked it, I ATV3 and my MBP on for about an hour, and when I came back, it was all just perfect! 🙂