My facetime keeps disconnecting

Hi,
I Facetime my girlfriend on a regular basis and for months now, I have been experiencing frequent disconnections with Facetime.
Despite both of us having strong Wi-Fi signal at home, our Facetime session keeps freezing with the word "Reconnecting...".
It is so frequent that every night, we expect Facetime to fail 3-10 times.
Any solution or is this a buggy feature of facetime?

Hey sss21,
Thanks for the question. I understand you are experiencing issues with FaceTime on your iPhone 5. The following resource may help to resolve your issue:
iOS: Troubleshooting FaceTime
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3367
Thanks,
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