Facetime freezes during every single call

my wife and I have iPhone 4. even if we are in the same room, standing right near the router, or we're in different locations with strong wifi, every single facetime call we makes freezes. I'm not exaggerating either; it's EVERY one.
anyone else have problems or a possible solution. and by solution I don't mean restore my phone through itunes. already tried that.
Would like to be able to show friends this cool feature without it freezing every time and them laughing.

I have a Cisco WRVS4400N WiFi router on both ends of my Facetime calls.
One is version 1.3 firmware the other is version 2
Version 1.3 router crashed EVERY SINGLE TIME I use face time.
Version 2 firmware does not crash.
I have done all of the recommended things like opening ports with no success.
I even located my Iphones under Settings / WiFi settings on the Iphone and put that IP address on DMZ (essentially putting the Iphone on the outside of the router firewall)
NOTHING FIXES THIS PROBLEM!
I have boiled this down to 3 possibilities.
1.  Iphone sends some commands through the router that cause it to hang.
2.  My ISP blocks my service when they see my Iphone FaceTime traffic (if they do that they are in BIG trouble)
3.  The router sends some data to the Iphone that makes it go berserk.
At a very minimum CISCO and Apple need to get on the phone with each other to sort this out. They are BOTH getting a black eye over this.
I am talking to my ISP to make sure they don't block Facetime traffic. BTW, most IPSs block outbound port 80 traffic. (Yeah, that's a dirty little secret. ISPs don't want you to host a website on your home service.)
Port 80 is the port where web traffic goes. (anything with a http:// in the address)
It did not happen until Ios 5.1

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