IMessage works on some WiFi networks but not all

I am having issues using iMessage on my iPad 2 while on my home network. I cannot send or receive messages while connect to my home wifi but when I went over my firends house and connected to their wifi everything was working fine. Now I am back home and it will not work again. Unfortunately after endlessly searching the web I have not been able to find any details about this and I even attempted at trying to open ports on my router but I have absolutely no I idea what I was doing there. Any help any one has would be greatly appreciated!
JP

Ok, right after submitting this question I may have found the solution. After referencing another post I came across some information about changing the DNS information under the wifi settings. I Changed it to 8.8.8.8 and was finally able to send a message (I think, still waiting for a reply).
JP

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Direct you to the proper forum for MacBook :
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https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks?view=discussions
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os?view=discussions
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro

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On 3G we cannot send Business emails from either our iPhones or Ipad and this also happens with some WiFi connections but not all. Yet we can always send emails from our Hotmail Account using both 3G and WiFi.
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Contact whomever supports the email account and get the correct Outgoing email server settings from them.

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<m.cnn.com/videos.jsp?ckey-cnn)06#__1_>
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I did not have this problem when I initially got my iPod Touch, and I think it appeared after one of the last two system upgrades, but I am not sure.
I am curious that it the problem happens at two places, my diner and at work.
The speed of my wireless work network, as judged by the ipod app speed test is 9915 kbps download and 6971 kbps upload, so plenty fast.
The first time I noticed this issue was with the application "At Bat Lite" which also won't play video highlights at work.
I do not have WiFi at home
Any thoughts about what would cause this lack of functionality apparantly only at some networks but not others?
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It seems I have two networks available at work, one is behind our firewall, and I login to it. This is the network that I can't view streaming video. There is also a "Guest" network that I don't need to login to. This one works with the YouTube and the news site videos.
Thus, I conclude there is a setting that WiFi network administrators can invoke that specifically can block streaming video on some protocols (whatever the ipod touch uses) and not others (whatever the Macbook uses). But the same router hardware supplying the Guest network does not block these protocols. Presumably this has to do with security on one side of the firewall(?)
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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3051/2308676274_00f5eba51c.jpg?v=0
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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2308733380_dcdc2faccd.jpg?v=0
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