Yosemite, poor performance with Apple TV

Exactly the same problem here.

Nothing working for me.

Apple TV not playing movies, only buffering.

It is really frustrating and I'm extremely disappointed with Apple.

Hey

I just purchased an apple tv today and straight out of the box was experiencing the same issues as you. Airplay from my iphone 6 works perfectly. I actually have a macbook pro from mid 2010 (very old I know) that is running Yosemite 10.10.4. It may be a shot in the dark if your apple tv is connected to your network through wifi, try to connect it directly to your router with an ethernet cable. I spent hours today trying to stream even music from my itunes library to the tv and as soon as I plugged in the ethernet cable and configured the connection on the apple tv to the ethernet port everything started to work perfectly, including streaming 1080p video from an external hard drive connected to the macbook pro.

Hope that helps

I have the same problem, but i know....everyone here has the same problem... a read many posts here and i can't resolve my problem and for me the problem is Yosemite, so ... my question is, th OS X EL Captian solve this?!? My apple tv is totalty useless because that... i had only reason for buy.. is the airplay mirroring... 😟 .. ok ok.. i saw others things cool in apple tv... but i really need that feature.. come on... help us apple!!!

My apple TV just went to the bin ...(no mirroring makes it a extremely useless piece of equipment ).. Hoping to get a free new one with the new OS ... Apple may get in contact with me via email to get my address so they can post the new Apple TV ...

Does anyone have a GOOD answer?! Tired on the "turn off bluetooth" that doesn't fix ****! and neither does "use extend desktop"!

Hi

I don't know if this would help. I tried to fix the problem of Mac book pro airplay AppleTV connection issue. Firewall blocks all sharing. Here is what I did.

System preferences - Security and Privacy - Firewall - turn it off - and then turn it back on. My Mac book pro now works with Airplay!!!

Hope that helps.

I have a 2015 MacBook Pro, ATV 3, everything with updated OS, BlueTooth off, all settings correct, and I can't get ATV to stream cleanly using AirPlay. ATV plays everything else just fine.

57,000 views in this thread, which is just one of several detailing this same problem over the past three years. Seems like if Apple really wants ATV to be a big part of their future, they'd find a way to fix the one we're using right now.

My firewall on the mac was already off - but turned it on and off - did help and its working

There is another known issue was - The Wireless router security encryption - WEP2 does not work , if you switch to WPA - Personal it will start working

I have 2 router in the house - so until i found this firewall issue - I change one of my router to WPA - personal and it works,

Hey guys!! i think i solved the problem!!

Go to Systems preferences - Sharing - Click off bluetooth sharing!!

My apple tv started to work perfect!!!!!

Try it and if it woks share!!!

Same issue for me.. I have the new MacBook (2015) + AppleTV 3rd Gen.

None of the tipps worked for me 😟

Thanks very much indeed, Papakaliati. Turning off Bluetooth solved the problem of drastic wifi internet speed slowdown when Apple TV is used as a second display over Airplay. Unfortunately, this seems to be an issue Apple is having and has not been addressed with latest software or hardware updates. (I am using late 2015 Macbook Pro, running OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 and Apple TV 4th Gen using latest software update.) Turning off Bluetooth seems to be an effective, if inconvenient, temporary solution until Apple addresses the issue. Thanks again. -Dean.

I was having this problem, too. The solution that worked for me was to force both my Apple TV and my MacBook Pro to use the 5 GHz wifi network, not the 2.4 GHz network. To do this on my setup, I did the following:

1. Open Airport Utility. Under Wireless > Wireless Options, I checked the option to give the 5 GHz band a new name.

2. On my MacBook Pro, I selected the new network (e.g., Melissa 5 GHz), then in Network Preferences, I selected "Advanced" under WiFi, then under the WiFi tab, I selected my old network name (e.g., Melissa) and hit the minus button. This makes the MacBook Pro forget how to log on to the full network, forcing it to stay on the 5 GHz band.

3. On my Apple TV, I used the Settings panel to switch to the new 5 GHz network.

Note that I was also able to solve this problem by turning off bluetooth, but that wasn't an ideal solution.