Can't connect FaceTime with iPad 2.

syl007 you are a legend! To try and connect my iPad2 and iPhone4S using FT has so far taken me 2 days. This is like climbing Mt Everest!! After resolving AppleID conflicts, not receiving activation emails from Apple and (when I did eventually receive them), the Apple server not validating my emails.... I was getting desperate.

I read numerous forums, on-line articles and Apple tutorials. I found your suggestion and was ready to try anything. I changed my DNS to 8.8.8.8 on both devices. You can imagine my elation when iPhone4 connected to iPad2 and vice versa. It may as well have been Christmas! 4 numbers stood between sanity and insanity!

Thank you so much! Greetings from similarly sunny New Zealand!

Syl007, you're a genius! After a week of searching online for anything to help me find a solution to this, I finally found the answer! Even the staff from apple store in Preston today could not help me. Changing the DNS setting to 8.8.8.8 really works!

Thank you so much!!!!

This issue also affects Messaging on Ipad2

I fixed it for my Mum with the 8.8.8.8 dns - and it works nicely - BUUUUT

then the appstore stops working

soooooo

my solution -

set the DNS to the default one and 8.8.8.8 as secondary -

i.e 10.1.1.1,8.8.8.8

and it worked -

Tried 8s on my iMac and on my new iPad2. But failed to connect on both.

I've be trying now to connect to FT since 14 months.....and tried every suggestion in any forum :-(

And no help or solution from Apple!!!

THIS IS REALLY FRUSTRATION APPLE GUYS. SEEMS YOU DON'T HAVE ANY SENCE OF HONOR ANYMORE.

Wooow Finallllly It Works Thnx Thnx Thnx =D

Hi,

SyI***, thanks for u r valuable tip.

After adding 8.8.8.8 FaceTime started working in my Ipad2-16gb wifi only.

I am using it in India

Regards

Bhaskar

Thank you, thank you and thank you. I have had a problem with FT on my IPOd and Apple Techs tried to help without success. I recently purchased the IPAD2 and was hoping that the problem had been fixed but no such luck. Thanks to this support forum my FT is working between my iPod & ipad2. I'm so delighted because FT was one of the main reasons that I purchased both devices. ...looking forward to trying FT with friends & family now. Keep sharing!

Thanks so much for sharing this info. It is working for me on all my devices.

Thanks ! FT on iPad 2 now works like a charm !

I have tried ALL of the fixes I have found. I have changed DNS server on new iPad, opened ports, made sure time was correct, changed DNS on PC...nothing is helping. I am unable to activate and sign in. I have also set up a new ID, even though the one for my iPod was working on my iPad for apps and everything else. I am at a loss and extremely frustrated.

I like but should not of, did not work, gonna try hooking to public, then have someone call me. :(

I have two Ipad 2's in the house. Mine will not dial my girlfriends but hers will dill mine and connect. They both had the same IP address, 10.0.0.138. I changed them to 8.8.8.8 and they both would not dial the other. Any ideas

An update:

I decided since it was a new iPad, to reset all settings and put it back to factory. As soon as I set it up and put in my ID, it logged onto FaceTime with no problems. I didn't have to change the DNS settings at all.

I too had the same problem with FaceTime and my email. I rebooted, problem solved!

I am able to connect perfectly sometimes and at other times it connects but transmits choppily until it drops out. I tried changing the DNS settings as suggested but I still got the same problem. Any ideas?