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Competing interests. But if you have a non-shitty router AirPlay works fine and the quality is as good as it would be otherwise streaming from Amazon.

NDizzle 13y ago
I have a decent netgear 5g router that lets me get the full 50/12 out to the internet. You'd think that would be enough for airplay, but I've never - NEVER had a good experience. (and the appletv is hardwired to a gigabit switch.)
- ahknight 13y ago
  Sounds like you have a LAN problem. AC66U, iPhone/iPad/MBP, ATV 3, gigabit LAN, and a 12/1 connection and I stream like a stream (Internet, AirPlay, whatever).
  - NDizzle 13y ago
    You know, you're right. I updated the amazon app on my iphone and was able to airplay in decent quality. The complaint I have is that I'm a secondary member on the prime account. (wife is #1 in many ways... prime account is one of them.) I don't get the option to play any of the 'prime' stuff being a secondary member.
kalleboo 13y ago
The latest-and-greatest Time Capsule at 3 meters away is a shitty router? I find to get AirPlay working reliably, you really need to have one of the devices wired.
- gonzo 13y ago
  3m? You might try a bit more distance. The free space path loss at 1m is only 41dB. If your signal leaves the device at only 10dBm, it arrives at the other device at -31dBm, (let's say antenna gain and loss in the coax cancel), which exceeds IEEE 802.11 maximums.
- girvo 13y ago
  Are you talking about Airplay Mirroring then, from your Mac? Or Airplay from iOS, as the former definitely has the problems you're talking about, but the latter is smooth as silk for me :/
- xcrunner529 13y ago
  I have a lowly N66U and use the 5GHZ network on it. I have no issues at all. I even stream 1080P full-quality BR rips via Plex via AirPlay. Maybe you are using a congested channel on 2.5ghz? Also worth mentioning like everyone else, make sure you aren't mirroring, but only sending the stream to the ATV.

NDizzle 13y ago

I have a decent netgear 5g router that lets me get the full 50/12 out to the internet. You'd think that would be enough for airplay, but I've never - NEVER had a good experience. (and the appletv is hardwired to a gigabit switch.)

ahknight 13y ago
Sounds like you have a LAN problem. AC66U, iPhone/iPad/MBP, ATV 3, gigabit LAN, and a 12/1 connection and I stream like a stream (Internet, AirPlay, whatever).
- NDizzle 13y ago
  You know, you're right. I updated the amazon app on my iphone and was able to airplay in decent quality. The complaint I have is that I'm a secondary member on the prime account. (wife is #1 in many ways... prime account is one of them.) I don't get the option to play any of the 'prime' stuff being a secondary member.

kalleboo 13y ago

The latest-and-greatest Time Capsule at 3 meters away is a shitty router? I find to get AirPlay working reliably, you really need to have one of the devices wired.

gonzo 13y ago
3m? You might try a bit more distance. The free space path loss at 1m is only 41dB. If your signal leaves the device at only 10dBm, it arrives at the other device at -31dBm, (let's say antenna gain and loss in the coax cancel), which exceeds IEEE 802.11 maximums.
girvo 13y ago
Are you talking about Airplay Mirroring then, from your Mac? Or Airplay from iOS, as the former definitely has the problems you're talking about, but the latter is smooth as silk for me :/
xcrunner529 13y ago
I have a lowly N66U and use the 5GHZ network on it. I have no issues at all. I even stream 1080P full-quality BR rips via Plex via AirPlay. Maybe you are using a congested channel on 2.5ghz? Also worth mentioning like everyone else, make sure you aren't mirroring, but only sending the stream to the ATV.