I'm not trying to be argumentative Demo so sorry if it came off sounding that way. I simply do not understand how to proceed in cases when options suggested are not available or device capability is also not available. I appreciate your help.
I have not tried a different network, however, Facetime worked fine previously on this ipad and only quit after trying to get iMessage up and running. Both of these services also work fine on my wife's ipad and her iphone on the same network. It therefore seems the network is capable of supporting these services. I did try resetting the router with no change however.
What happens when I go to either Facetime or iMessage is I am prompted to log in. My Apple ID is already present in the field for it, I enter my password and receive an error that says: "FaceTime Activation An error occurred during activation. Try again." The same thing happens in iMessage except the heading is iMessage Activation. My only available option is to click the OK in the error dialog.
A few more details. I was trying to get iMessage activated when this issue started. I was also previously able to message between this ipad and my wife's ipad with the prior Message service. When I installed IOS 8 it wanted me to set up iMessage. When initially trying to do that, it gave me an error saying the email address I was trying to use was already in use. Indeed, it was on my Facetime account. I didn't think this was an issue since both Facetime and the old messaging service were able to utilize the same email address, this is how the ipad was initially setup. After getting the email address already in use error, it has now seemingly locked both services and I can't log into either one.
From what I've read previously having the date and time zone properly set is relevant. I've done that. The Reset All Settings suggested above should have logged me out of everything and reset the ipad. Which it seemed to have done. This follows with the Apple recommendations, however, this also has not resolved the issue.