Basically, it’s a way of using your home electrical wiring as network cable. In my latest bout of frustration, I came across Powerline adapters. But there’s just no way I can run a wire through my house like that. Some network software I looked at seemed to show the Apple TV was only getting like 6 Mb/s data rate, which would explain the problems. A little Google searching turns up many people with similar problems.Īt this point, I can only assume the Apple TV’s WiFi antenna sucks or has some other sort of throughput problems. I’ve checked the strength of other wireless devices in the same general area and they all get good, fast, transfer times. I even ensured to force it onto the 5Gz WiFi. So that tells you something.īut what gets further odd is streaming direct from the Internet (instead of the internal media server) is usually fine. Music is rarely a problem, older shows encoded at lower quality no problem. Instead, you spend 10 minutes trying to troubleshoot and fiddle around to get things working. It’s mighty frustrating and unsatisfying when you sit down ready to relax with a favorite show, and you can’t get the show. Sometimes we go to start a show and the load time takes… well, it never loads.

We get the shows we like, that we’re curious to see, and watching as we want, when we want, to pause when we need to, no commercials, I’m all for it.

We dumped cable TV, have no broadcast antenna, the Apple TV is it.

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