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Apple TV 2 WiFi

thatoneguy82

thatoneguy82

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Jul 23, 2008
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Last night, my AppleTV kept dropping it's WiFi connection. It would stay on then off in about 10 seconds. My password was entered correctly in and every time. I even tried my different router (I have 2, my TimeCapsule and my VZW FiOS receiver). That didn't work. Kept doing the same thing. The only thing that did work was a direction connection through the ethernet port. I have an APE behind there for my DVR on demand and the audio through my receiver. I could always get a splitter but I don't know this started happening all of a sudden.

I have turned it off, restarted, updated software, still the same issues. With the splitter, would that degrade the speed of the devices connected to it?
 
thatoneguy82 said:
Last night, my AppleTV kept dropping it's WiFi connection. It would stay on then off in about 10 seconds. My password was entered correctly in and every time. I even tried my different router (I have 2, my TimeCapsule and my VZW FiOS receiver). That didn't work. Kept doing the same thing. The only thing that did work was a direction connection through the ethernet port. I have an APE behind there for my DVR on demand and the audio through my receiver. I could always get a splitter but I don't know this started happening all of a sudden.

I have turned it off, restarted, updated software, still the same issues. With the splitter, would that degrade the speed of the devices connected to it?
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Maybe someone nearby is on the same frequency? Otherwise it does seem very random.
 
WiFi is very prone to interference. It's testament to the work of all the engineers, because it's such a crowded spectrum.

Using a network switch from the Airport Express won't degrade the speeds, in face you might even see slightly better performance since you'll have one less WiFi device in the neighborhood.

Eventually, you should think about getting an Ethernet line run from your router to your TV. It's going to be more important as time passes and we start watching more HD on our streaming devices.
 
thatoneguy82 said:
Last night, my AppleTV kept dropping it's WiFi connection. It would stay on then off in about 10 seconds. My password was entered correctly in and every time. I even tried my different router (I have 2, my TimeCapsule and my VZW FiOS receiver). That didn't work. Kept doing the same thing. The only thing that did work was a direction connection through the ethernet port. I have an APE behind there for my DVR on demand and the audio through my receiver. I could always get a splitter but I don't know this started happening all of a sudden.

I have turned it off, restarted, updated software, still the same issues. With the splitter, would that degrade the speed of the devices connected to it?
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you could use (I'm assuming you're on Lion) Wi-Fi Diagnostics Utility (System\Library\CoreServices\) to check for interference.

Have you changed anything since the wifi connection was stable? The placing of the ATV2, added something next to the TV, put up a new painting between the ATV2 and the router or anything that could cause problems? Even a refrigerator can be a reason to why a wifi connection is unstable.

DustinT said:
Eventually, you should think about getting an Ethernet line run from your router to your TV. It's going to be more important as time passes and we start watching more HD on our streaming devices.
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The claim that the bit rate of HD content will increase faster than the wireless technology transfer rate will is quite interesting, what makes you think that this is the case?
 
Wirelessly posted (iPhone 4S: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A405 Safari/7534.48.3)

If you have the ability to use Ethernet over WiFi, I always recommend that route. Ethernet is faster, more stable and not prone to interference like WiFi is.

My iMac, Xbox, and ATV2 are all hard-wired and the only thing on my WiFi is my iPhone.
 
If you can't or don't want to run an ethernet cable, home plugs is always an option. A bit more expensive, but it does the job.
 
I run wired Ethernet wherever I can, if you can't do that get a dual band router like the Airport Extreme as the ATV2 supports the 5GHz WiFi (albeit shorted range than the 2.4GHz).
 
My Apple TV also cuts out from WiFi periodically. I wonder if it is heat related (someone took theirs apart and found the WiFi chip was exposed to more heat than maybe intended).

I've gone the ethernet route, it's faster and more reliable.
 
Since the recent Airport Utility upgrade and associated Airport and Capsule firmware update, my Apple TV does not speak to my mac mini been told to check they are on the same wifi network. Don't know why, because up until the update, the two were very happy together. And they are too far away to link with ethernet cable. My Apple TV (AT2) is upto date
 
Confuzzzed said:
Since the recent Airport Utility upgrade and associated Airport and Capsule firmware update, my Apple TV does not speak to my mac mini been told to check they are on the same wifi network. Don't know why, because up until the update, the two were very happy together. And they are too far away to link with ethernet cable. My Apple TV (AT2) is upto date
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Have you rebooted the ATV2 and the Mini?
 
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