

The Adobe Reader interface will also offer you the ability to edit and create PDFs, but when you click on the button, you’ll be brought to the Adobe website where you can purchase Acrobat Pro, the granddaddy of PDF apps. It also offers a few additional features, like the ability to share your PDF with a variety of 3rd party apps, to hook up with storage services like Dropbox and Google Drive (making it easier to manage large numbers of PDFs), and to stamp, annotate, and comment on PDFs you’ve imported. Remember, Adobe Reader for Mac will only allow you to read, annotate, and print PDFs. Even so, its age doesn’t seem to have done it any harm, as it looks and acts like an app that’s spent much less time hanging around on people’s computers.

In fact, at 26, it’s probably older than many of you reading. The Mac mini is connected to the Extreme via Ethernet directly (no switches), and the Apple TV is connected via wi-fi.Adobe’s entry-level PDF reader and viewerĪdobe Reader is a classic Adobe app that has been around for some time. The network is an 802.11ac AirPort Extreme that's in charge of everything - DHCP, etc etc.

They're stored on a 4-drive RAID enclosure connected by FireWire 800. The files in question are almost always 10GB+ 1080p files, all ripped and remuxed the same way. I'd happily get some powerline ethernet adaptors, but I don't want to waste my time if the wireless speeds I'm getting are fine and the problem is elsewhere! Any pointers would be much appreciated. The settings screen of the Apple TV indicates 4-5 signal bars whenever I check, but I have no idea how reliable that is or what it actually means. In any case, I've tried playing with wireless channels, but it doesn't make any discernible difference. Older versions of the airport utility had a panel where you could see the speed at which devices were talking to the base station. My main suspicion, due to the seemingly random nature of the problem, would be slow wifi speeds. Since I know the Apple TV is capable of streaming and playing back these sorts of files without issue, so I suspect a network issue, but I have no way to verify that. When it's working fine, movies start playing inside of twenty seconds and don't pause to buffer at any point. I've tried restarting the Mac, wireless box and Apple TV at that point, and it almost never makes any difference (as in, it stays pretty slow). The catch? There's no consistency to when it happens, and I don't know how to diagnose it when it does.

On seemingly random occasions, streaming media from iTunes on a Mac mini to my Apple TV (3rd gen, latest software) will result in slow buffering of movies.
