So I did search, and the results gave me a headache. Or, made one worse. Forgive me if the answer is out there, I just wasn't sure it was...
So here's my setup.
I have FiOS as my ISP, and their provided router serves up a G signal for wireless. This sits in my basement.
I have connected to it over ethernet, a relatively new Airport extreme, with this set up to provide the N only network. Until today, everything was fine. I was syncing, I was streaming, no issues, no stutters.
Today, however-having made no changes outside of disconnecting 2 networked drives from the Airport, both of my Apple TVs were really slow.
in doing some poking around, for some reason my N network seemed to have gone away. I re-did it, but then realized I never locked it in for N only. I locked it to N only, 5ghz, and now one Apple TV is fine, but the other which had been fine, now refuses to see the network at all, and only sees the G network.
the two apple tvs are one floor above the network gear, and in rooms maybe 25 feet apart. in terms of a direct line from the apple tvs to the airports, its a virtual wash, no more than 5 or 6 feet difference between them.
Any ideas why one apple tv connects to the best network fine, and the other won't see it at all? If manually enter the name, it says theres a problem with the network--even though I am surfing the very network from my MBP, 2 feet away from the apple tv that says the network isnt there.
Should i consider an extender? Should I suffer with that one on the G network, which was so crappy it prompted me to get the Airport in the first place? I am really stumped, since for so long it had been working really well, and now it went from bad to worse.....
So here's my setup.
I have FiOS as my ISP, and their provided router serves up a G signal for wireless. This sits in my basement.
I have connected to it over ethernet, a relatively new Airport extreme, with this set up to provide the N only network. Until today, everything was fine. I was syncing, I was streaming, no issues, no stutters.
Today, however-having made no changes outside of disconnecting 2 networked drives from the Airport, both of my Apple TVs were really slow.
in doing some poking around, for some reason my N network seemed to have gone away. I re-did it, but then realized I never locked it in for N only. I locked it to N only, 5ghz, and now one Apple TV is fine, but the other which had been fine, now refuses to see the network at all, and only sees the G network.
the two apple tvs are one floor above the network gear, and in rooms maybe 25 feet apart. in terms of a direct line from the apple tvs to the airports, its a virtual wash, no more than 5 or 6 feet difference between them.
Any ideas why one apple tv connects to the best network fine, and the other won't see it at all? If manually enter the name, it says theres a problem with the network--even though I am surfing the very network from my MBP, 2 feet away from the apple tv that says the network isnt there.
Should i consider an extender? Should I suffer with that one on the G network, which was so crappy it prompted me to get the Airport in the first place? I am really stumped, since for so long it had been working really well, and now it went from bad to worse.....