Q: everything in my house is working fine on my wireless connection except my apple tv will not connect. how do i fix this?

Morning foley13,

Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.

You can resolve many Wi-Fi issues by checking your network connection settings.

For more information on this, take a look at this article:

Apple TV (2nd and 3rd generation): Troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks and connections

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4546

Best of luck,

Mario