Facetime not signing in

I'm using IPOD touch 4th gen.
it says network connection error. but my connection is just fine. I can download apps.use facebook app. My apple id is just fine. I just activated my icloud account, but my imessage and facetime account shows a problem when im trying to sign in.  Please help .

Have you seen this article yet?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4319
Others have been able to resovle the issue by using Google's DNS servers.  Head to Settings -> Wi-Fi and tap the > next to the network you are connected to.  Scroll down to DNS and enter in 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4 and see if that helps.
B-rock

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