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The house is only 8 years old, so the wiring should be pretty good, but before I had the new router, I noticed that when my roommate would use his shredder, the buffering would immediately begin. I'll have to temporarily run a direct ethernet line to the ATV just to see if it makes a difference.
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If you can't run cables in the place you should upgrade your router to a 802.11n router, for $149 (AU) you can get a Apple Airport Express that can be plugged into you existing router and doubles as a Airplay target and a USB print server... depending on distance you should be able to get just as good connection speeds as a wired 100mb network.
I have an ATV in a remote part of my house (which I'm too damned lazy to cable) connected to an Airport Express and it's connection speed is 65mbps approx 40 m and 3 brick walls from the Airport.
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I need to reply on this. Since I also had problems with buffering and have made a lot of changes in my network.
Powerplugs cant work well if you have different electrical fase in your apartment/house. Even if your house is only 8 years old, its even bigger chance that you have different fases there.
I found out that the atv in bedroom started to buffer after 45-60 min into a 720p mkv movie. Then buffer every minute, protocoll was smb, but when I went over to upnp the whole movie was smooth.
Yesterday I bought another new router, Cisco E4200. I now run the three apple tvs alone on the 5Ghz and rest of the computers at 2.4ghz. We saw a whole movie yesterday, 720p mkv with absolutley no buffer at smb protocoll in bedroom.
If I was you I would check with cable first, since all three of my atv doesnt buffer anymore, with latest official xbmc firmware.
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for me mac ftp works great without buffering, but xbmc has problems with ftp symlinks :S
mac smb is very slow, buffering all 30s
tested on mkv 1080p 9gb (crank I)
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2011-03-30, 19:34
(This post was last modified: 2011-03-30, 19:38 by hovnarr.)
Did I talk to you? Yeah obviously I was. Anyway, sir, as mention from previous members, please check cable first to rule out its network related.
Thanks.
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Hi folks,
Getting the same issue with SMB.
Just to recap, my atv2 is running 4.2.1 and the latest official version of XBMC connected to my Synology using cable (not wireless).
Playing the normal files never was an issue but playing 1080 and 720 mkv, was having some buffering issues.
Yesterday, I've changed the protocol to FTP...and it is now working perfectly
Ebt
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Hi I tried both FTP and SMB but some 1080p files are still no good. There is no buffering, but the movies stutter.
So I thinks it is not a networkproblem. (when I play movies from the NAs to my PC the movies are lookign stunning)
So is there a problem with my Apple tv 2?
Thanks