I am having serious problems streaming content from my Mac Mini Home Sharing with Apple TV (Gen 3). I connected my Apple TV directly to my Mac Mini and the streaming is blazing fast, but now I've lost internet connect and only have the Computers and Settings icons on the Apple TV display. Can I have the Apple TV connect to my Mac Mini and still have internet access?
I signed out of Home Sharing on the Mac Mini and logged back in and BOOM, the Apple TV recognized the computer and is streaming content on Home Sharing and the Apps. The Internet Sharing option seemed to do the trick. Not sure why I was having the connection problem with Home Sharing via WiFi, but I'm just fine having the Apple TV connected to the Mac Mini via ethernet. Thanks for the assistance.
Apple TV only connects to a computer for restoring the device. It would not be possible to view an Apple TV via a Mac. If you want to wire the Apple TV it would need to be to the router, or you would need to troubleshoot your wireless network (router is on a different floor, which leaves room for interference)
The wifi works fine on both the Mac Mini and the Apple TV. I can stream content from the Apple TV apps and iTunes. My issue is when I try to stream content from Home Sharing via wifi - dead crawl. Very long buffering and slow connection. When I connect with Apple TV directly to the Mac Mini via a cat 5 cable, it streams Home Share contect blazing fast, but I lose the wifi App content.
Chadley70 wrote:
I am having serious problems streaming content from my Mac Mini Home Sharing with Apple TV (Gen 3). I connected my Apple TV directly to my Mac Mini and the streaming is blazing fast, but now I've lost internet connect and only have the Computers and Settings icons on the Apple TV display...
Confused by this... On the Apple TV the network settings are in Settings -> General.
... Can I have the Apple TV connect to my Mac Mini and still have internet access?
If your Mac mini is connected to your network via Wifi, on the Mac mini go to System Preferences -> Sharing -> Internet Sharing. Then configure it to share FROM WiFi TO Ethernet.
I connected the Apple TV via ethernet after enabling Internet Sharing on the Mini Mac. It allows the Apple TV to connect via ethernet for App content, but when I try to access Home Sharing it give me the message to turn on Home Sharing in iTunes on the computer using my Apple ID. iTunes is open on the Mac Mini and Home Sharing is signed in. The Apple TV isn't recognizing the computer.
I had so many problems and kept looking at settings on the Mac, TV and Apple TV. I spent dozens of hours.
The problem was that my Mac sometimes got bounced off my WiFi and logged in on a different network.
Connect the ATV directly to the internet.
My wifi router is on a different level of the condo.
It's wireless. why does that matter?
I'm guessing that this is because the Internet sharing creates a subnet for the Ethernet connection and therefore the Apple TV can not see the services provided by the Mac mini.
Glad that you got it sorted out.
Can I connect apple tv ethernet via mac mini and connect to my network?
