Hello all, First I would like to apologies for the length of this post however hope the information is useful to anyone able to reply.
I hope you can help me diagnose why I am having problems with my Apple TV (3rd Gen). The majority of the time it is plugged in with an ethernet cable and I have no problems with it. There is however the odd occasion like this afternoon where I take the box and connect it to the TV in the lounge running through WiFi. I have found that performance is affected and I often I have to wait for the film to buffer, especially with HD content. The following information should help your understanding of the wireless environment and help with any recommendations you may have. There are 5 people living in the household with many wireless devices. Downstairs is a BTHomeHub2 which everyone in the house expect me uses as the router. I have a Cat5e cable running from the router to my bedroom upstairs connected to an AirPort Extreme base station set up as a different network. This base station can therefore handle my internal tasks and only go back to the main router for wifi connectivity which I have found reduces the amount of stress on the network. Connected via ethernet cable is my printer, mobile signal boost box because there is no mobile signal at the house and the AppleTV when it is in the room. Connected wirelessly is my 5K iMac, iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro and perhaps the occasional other device. When the Apple TV is in the lounge it is connected wirelessly to the AirPort Extreme, the same network as my iMac is connected to with the iTunes Library. The Apple TV is located one floor down and no more than 2 meters across. At this point the Apple TV states it has 3/5 bars connection signal. I have attached a screen shot of the performance graphs as part of the network diagnostics utility on my iMac. Not sure what this tells you which is useful. Any recommendations you have as to how to reduce the buffering are much appreciated. Thank you in advance. Benjamin Phillips -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
