Facetime from outside of US

I'm going to be in Canada later today, so I'm missing my friend's birthday party. They wanted to facetime me when they brought out the cake so I could sing happy birthday with everyone, but my family doesn't have international data or texting/calling. I'll be at my grandma's and she hase wifi, and my friend has wifi at her house, so if we're both on wifi, would it cost anything to facetime?

It won't costs you anything on facetime in Canada if you're using WIFI.
But the "quality" of Facetime will be remain on the WiFi.and where you're going.
As you all may know,some parts of Canada don't have High speed board band Internet.
some people are still using "dial up".
Even they may have board band Internet,the speed & monthly GB limit is also vary on how much they paid every month.

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interface Ethernet0/4
interface Ethernet0/5
interface Ethernet0/6
interface Ethernet0/7
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HT2731 can i have more than one apple id on a computer? As when we go away we want to facetime from our macpro to our main mac at home and both are registered under the same apple ID. Thanks

Can you have more than one apple id on a computer. We are going away and want to facetime from our macpro to the mac computer at home but both are registered under the same apple ID. What should we do ?

I will share with you what I have done to manage this with my family. While the solution isn't without flawes, it seems to do the trick. First, you need to have one person who is managing the synching of everyone's devices. In my family, I have three iphones, about to be four, and five ipads. We all synch to the same apple ID to allow one another to take seemless advantage of our Itunes, which is on our Imac. To synch individual music or video interests, we simply select which playlists we want and manually synch that way. A couple of us use imatch and the cloud to make the entire library accessable as well. With respect to the imessage, mail, contacts, etc. we each have a gmail account for our individual emails, contacts etc. So for instance, my forth grade daughter has a gmail account that we choose to synch her contacts, calendar, etc to and then that is also the account where she receives her imessages from on her ipad and itouch. My son, who has an iphone and ipad, does the same thing, but under settings, he goes to imessage and checks his phone number and his email as his preferred way to receive imessages and texts. My wife and I do the same thing. To avoid having everyone see one anothers contracts etc, we only synch contacts from our individual email accounts. Here is the downfall to this: When you update your phone or add a new device, apple always wants to reset everyone's facetime and imessage settings and then low and behold we are all receiving imessages from one another's friends etc. To work around this, I simply take each of their devices and go to their imessage settings and only check the email and phone numbers relative to their devices. I dont' know is this is the best solution, but it seems to work for us.

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