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Atv2: "pinwheel of death" on turn on home sharing
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<blockquote data-quote="baggss" data-source="post: 1137077" data-attributes="member: 6762"><p>Traveling? Staying in a hotel? My experience with ATV 2 is that it needs to connect to the web and to your iTunes acct before home sharing will work. Now, the box may be online but the ports required for it to connect MAY be blocked by your hotel. I recently had this issue and ended up retuning the ATV 2 and buying another when I got home. Even if the ATV 2 is online via your Mac or directly thru the hotel, if the port are blocked by the hotels service it's either going to fail or hang.</p><p></p><p>By Aloha, I assume you are in Hawaii. If you are staying in a Marriott property there they DO block the ports required by ATV, they all use the same provider in the islands. Nothing you can do. Go to the Apple help page for ATV 2 and look up the ports in question. You can call the hotels provider and ask them to open the ports but doing so may be a violation of their terms of service and they may just cut you off all together. Good Luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="baggss, post: 1137077, member: 6762"] Traveling? Staying in a hotel? My experience with ATV 2 is that it needs to connect to the web and to your iTunes acct before home sharing will work. Now, the box may be online but the ports required for it to connect MAY be blocked by your hotel. I recently had this issue and ended up retuning the ATV 2 and buying another when I got home. Even if the ATV 2 is online via your Mac or directly thru the hotel, if the port are blocked by the hotels service it's either going to fail or hang. By Aloha, I assume you are in Hawaii. If you are staying in a Marriott property there they DO block the ports required by ATV, they all use the same provider in the islands. Nothing you can do. Go to the Apple help page for ATV 2 and look up the ports in question. You can call the hotels provider and ask them to open the ports but doing so may be a violation of their terms of service and they may just cut you off all together. Good Luck. [/QUOTE]
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