IMessage hiccups

Not always, but several times a day, an iMessage will never show up as "delivered" to other party, though it shows up as "delivered" on my other devices. Other party will get it several minutes later, sometimes twice.
Selecting "send as SMS" seems to force it to work, but that often results in sending it twice.
Sometimes the delay is several minutes, then when I come back it shows "sent as text message."
This is all only since upgrading to iPhone 5. I've tried signing out, then back into iMessage, resetting phone's network settings, and doing a full reset of the phone through iTunes.
Driving me crazy. I hate not knowing whether my wife has even gotten my texts. Kind of renders iMessage pointless. Help anyone?

If you or your wife has a bad signal whe the message is sent, then it can take a few mins to go through, also if same scenario, it will turn from a imessage to a sms text if the imessage takes to long to go through, its designed to do that.

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I have noticed (over a long period of time, and multiple OSX versions) iMessages behaving strangely on OSX, including:
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At various times the Mac version does seem to suffer this lag you talk about.
There is not a lot you can do about it.
Depending on your Mac some apps will "micro sleep" to save power.
Some Apple ones can be set to not sleep by setting an option in the Info Panel (right click the app in the Applications Folder and then Get Info).
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. I have tried to switch on and off still not working.
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I have one apple ID for multiple devices in my family. I'd like to keep it that way for itunes/app purchases. I would like a simple step 1, step 2, step 3 response on what I need to do to separate all other features like imessage, contacts, emails, etc.
I have been reasearching how to do this on the internet, but I haven't found an easy explanation yet. My family is going crazy over each others imessages being sent to others in the family and not being able to use FaceTime because of conflicting email addresses. I have read that if each person gets their own iCloud account, this would work. However, I need to know what to do after I set everyone up with their own iCloud account. Do I make that the default email address to be contacted or can they still use their hotmail email addresses. Any help- with easy explanation- would be much appreciated!!

We do this in my family now. We have one account for purchases, so it is used to share music and apps (I think that is in Settings/iTunes & App Stores). Each iDevice has this configured.
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So we all share the Apple Store account but we all have our own iCloud accounts to keep the rest seperate or things like you mentioned are a nightmare.
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We have one Apple ID and many family members with iPads, iPhones etc... As it stands we all receive all incoming imessages and this is impracticle moving forward.
Other than setting up multiple Apple ID's how do we set up each user with an individual iMessage address?
I understand how to do this using a phone numbers but cannot stop all users getting imessages sent to the Apple ID email address. I have tried inputting secondary email addresses but get error messages advising "account already in use".
Long story short.....Can I set up all family devices on the one apple ID but designate each member with an individual email address that precludes them from receiving iMessages sent to the "master" Apple ID address?
Phew
Thanks

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