Facetime on iPad3 over WIFI - Airport Extreme

Just bought an iPad3 (WIFI only). It connects beautiful to my Airport Extreme network. BUT I´m unable to run Facetime and iMessage. My Apple-ID works fine. The errormessage I get when trying to enable (log on with my Apple ID) Facetime and iMessage: "Could not log on. Check network connection and try again". My new iPad works fine with Safari and Mail on the network. Anybody has a good idea how to solve the problem? Regards Erik.

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