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Can't detect Air Play with any device

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Andreadair

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Jun 25, 2012
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've spent the last 6 hours trying to figure this out. Please someone help me.

bought my ATV two months ago and everything worked fine. A few days ago noticed that wasn't able to access Air Play on any of my iOS devices, nor my iTunes on my laptop. My remote app can't find the ATV and Home Sharing stopped working.

've restored my ATV, reset my wireless router. called Apple Care and was told it was a problem with my router not letting the correct ports to run. Netgear told me everything is fine and that they don't handle that kind of a problem.

've done everything the Apple support page told me to do and still nothing works. Please tell me others have had this problem, because 'm about to lose my mind.
 
tried that and it did detect the Air Play, but it didn't work. The Home Sharing still didn't work either.

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 think 'm going to take it to the Apple store and see if they can help me.
 
Andreadair said:
tried that and it did detect the Air Play, but it didn't work. The Home Sharing still didn't work either.

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 think 'm going to take it to the Apple store and see if they can help me.
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You've either got a faulty ATV or a faulty router....The Netgear shouldn't block ports....I'd get a genius to test the ATV in store...If it works there then your issue lies with the router.
 
I had the same problem. My latest gen (March 2012) Apple TV was connected via ethernet wire to my network and I could not connect to it with either my iPhone or my iPad. After much reading, I saw that my wireless router was the likely culprit, as far fetched as that sounds.

I have a D-Link DIR-655 Wireless-N router and Airplay would only work if I rebooted the wireless router. And even then it would only work for a few days. After some Googling, I discovered that if I disabled “WMM” under advanced wireless, everything worked well. So instead of rebooting my router every 4 days, it’s gone weeks now without a reboot. And I now have three (3) ATV’s and they all work flawlessly.

I know it sounds crazy but in my case it was definitely the wireless router causing the problem. I've also heard about people who ditched their router and got an Apple wireless router and it works great. I was about to do that, but found that this simple setting let it work just fine.

Good luck!
 
Thanks. I have a Netgear WNDR3800. I bought it because I wanted a better wireless connection so I could Air Play without the lags my other, older router was giving me.

Is that the wireless multi-media option? I'll check it out, but I wonder why that would cause problems.
 
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