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Hardwiring Apple TV 2 question

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Nov 2, 2011
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currently, i'm streaming my apple tv 2 over a wifi signal sent from my macbook (internet sharing). instead of using my macbook as the wifi source, i'm about to purchase a 3rd gen airport extreme and use that instead. with that being said, if i do get the airport extreme, i'll probably hardwire the atv2 since i have an extra few ports available. i was going to also connect a couple USB external drives to the AE in addition to that.

i know there are ways to wirelessly access the hd connected to the AE, but is it the same process to connect to the hard drive when hardwired? and is there a way for my atv2 to connect to the hard drive alone without the macbook as an intermediary? my atv2 is jailbroken btw.. thank you all in advance!
 
Ok, I'm a PC guy, so you lost me on a lot of that. Still, I can answer one question.

You have to have iTunes running somewhere to connect to the ATV. It won't work trying to directly connect to the AE or a NAS or anything else, unfortunately.

Sorry that I can't help more, but that's as much as I know.
 
I have my ATV2 wired to my AE and accessing a harddrive connected to the AE directly.

I use XBMC to access the media files on the harddisk and any other networked drive I wish. (this requires a jailbreak)
 
sulliweb said:
Ok, I'm a PC guy, so you lost me on a lot of that. Still, I can answer one question.

You have to have iTunes running somewhere to connect to the ATV. It won't work trying to directly connect to the AE or a NAS or anything else, unfortunately.

Sorry that I can't help more, but that's as much as I know.
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ohh okay. don't be sorry, thank you so much for your reply. i just got the atv2 and it's one hell of a machine. i guess there's only so many ways you can work around it huh

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808? said:
I have my ATV2 wired to my AE and accessing a harddrive connected to the AE directly.

I use XBMC to access the media files on the harddisk and any other networked drive I wish. (this requires a jailbreak)
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oh really? yea, my atv2 is jailbroken. would it still be the same process to access the harddrive when the atv is hardwired, as opposed to accessing it wirelessly? in other words, a hardwired atv can still see the networked harddrive as a workgroup without any additional steps? other than turning on file sharing on the AE of course
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3)

Wired or wireless makes no difference.
 
Gav2k said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3)

Wired or wireless makes no difference.
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Exactly - but I find a wired connection being more stable for ease of use.
 
Gav2k said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3)

Wired or wireless makes no difference.
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808? said:
Exactly - but I find a wired connection being more stable for ease of use.
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oh okay thank you very much! yea, i have a videos that i cant watch without it buffering every second over wifi.. which is why i really want to hardwire the atv2.
 
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