IMessage delivering messages late, REALLY late.

This has been an intermittent problem for most of the life of iMessage for me. But lately, it has gotten much more reliably worse.
At work, I get very intermittent 3G (or, ahem) 4G service, from AT&T (not their fault, I work in a faraday cage). If my wife sends an iMessage to my 4S from her 4 when I happen to be getting a bad data signal, it will frequently not get delivered until 6, 10 or the record, 17 hours later. Even though I often throughout the day go into an area that has better reception, and even in my office I get occasional data connections throughout the day. She sees the message go out, but the "delivered" message doesn't always come up. But since it went out it never offers a "retry" option, fugiring it would eventually get through, but only via pony apparently. A few months ago she sent a couple messages that got marked as "delivered" on her end that I never saw at all.
We have "send as SMS" off because we cancelled our texting plans because they're just silly in this day and age. We've switched to Facebook Messenger (bleargh) until I think the problem is better. Has anyone else seen this? I can't be the only one, but I guess I didn't put the magic words into the search engine.
If I have a good network connection, it works fine, always, by the way.

Its googles DNS and it helps send messages faster. It helped me send them because they wouldnt send. it wont mess anything up.

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