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Jun 3, 2016 9:44 AM in response to SW11by Diana.McCall,Your AirPlay problem is a Bonjour problem. Are you running a Bonjour server on the router? With a complex network architecture, the multicast Bonjour discovery messages aren't propagated to all the nodes, so it helps to have something at the headend that's keeping track. That's why restarting an ATV can suddenly make it visible; it broadcasts its availability and the clients hear it, whereas when the client called for services the ATV didn't hear so didn't reply. Even in a simple single router setup, there have been problems routing those packets between wired and wireless subnets. I have experienced this: unreliable AirPlay from WiFi iPad to wired ATV. Moving ATV to WiFi fixed this; so did a new router. I believe that issue is OBE with current routers, but the problem of a multi-branched network remains.