Thank you for the reply zabadu
So yah, after messing with it for a while, that's what I came up with too. I was wrong when I said that the 2nd Apple TV, when connected to hardwire, didn't work. Both of them do work when they're directly connected by wire to the router. Neither one works when they're connected to wifi.
To explain, I have an ubee modem with wifi capability supplied by Time Warner cable. I already had a netgear wifi router when I signed up with Time Warner, so I decided not to pay to have the wifi router turned on, on the ubee modem.
At the time, I started having trouble with double NAT, which honestly I never figured out. I wanted to have the main PC connected by wifi to the netgear router, which was connected to the ubee modem, but I couldn't get it to work. Long story short, I decided to keep the netgear wifi router connected to the ubee modem, and I use the wifi for iphones, laptops and ipads around the house. But I have the main PC with all of my media on it directly connected by cable to the ubee modem, as well as one of the Apple TVs which works fine this way.
What I realized is that, if I connect a usb wifi adapter to the main PC, it now says I have "Multiple networks"; the "Home network" is connected by "Local Area Connection" and the "HomeGroup" is "Joined" on that network. The "Public network" is connected by "Wireless Network". And the 2nd Apple TV, which is connected to the wifi network, works now.
I really don't know what that means 😝, wish I did; I'm not really smart enough with routers and modems to understand. All I get out of that is that the Apple TV wont connect to HomeShare on the main PC via wifi unless the main PC is also connected to the wifi? My other option was to get a switch, but this seems to work fine, so I guess I'm going with it. I'm curious though, so if any of this seems obviously simple to anyone, I'd really like to know what it means.
Thx!
