IPhone 4, 4S, & 5 + iPad 2 facetime does not connect

Me and several family members with Apple devices ranging from iPhone 4 (5.0.1), iPhone 4S (iOS 6), iPhone 5 (iOS 6), and iPad2 (5.1.1) cannot connect to each other using facetime for a past few weeks. I have read a few blogs about iOS 6 being the problem, and the solution was to upgrade to iOS 7. I have tried using my two iOS 5 devices to facetime, but that does not work either. Is there a real solution to the problem besides "update to iOS 7"? Facetime was working on all devices previously.
I cannot update all the devices in question because a lot of the phones are in the hands of technology-illiterate family members overseas. Can you please provide a solution to this problem? Our family bought Apple devices mainly because of the facetime feature so we could connect overseas. Thank you.

This...actually...does not help at all. This seems to be the "generic" answer to a recently common question.
Facetime WAS working perfectly before Apple did something, and now the answer is a forced "upgrade" to remedy it. There are tons of reasons why people do not want to upgrade to a newer version, especially with a phone that has older hardware (such as the iPhone 4). As stated above, some of my family members are technologically illiterate, and upgrading their phone is difficult. This seems more and more like Apple's plan to force people to buy new phones. When you take a perfectly working product and then disable key features that force people to upgrade, thats a pretty lame move. What's to say Apple won't do something like this in the future? If I buy the iPhone 5S, 2 years down the line, Apple might disable Siri so you're forced to buy iPhone 7 to use it again.
I loved how Apple seamlessly "just worked", which is why I got my family Apple devices. Now that it doesn't...I might be forced to find other alternatives.

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