My facetime keeps failing after attempting to connect

Hello,
I recently purchased a used 2011 macbook pro (OS X 10.6.8) with a pre-installed version of facetime (1.0) already on it, whenever I try to facetime someone (mobile or mac) it says it is connecting and then fails and I know the error is due to my laptop as I've signed in with 2 different accounts and I still get the same result. I've researched the problem and I'm still confused as to what the problem is, surely it should still work with OS X 10.6.8?.
I have looked on the app store and tried to install the recent version of facetime (1.0.5) in a hope that it will resolve the issue, however whenever I try to purchase the app it comes with a pre-warning messsage; "Facetime 1.0 is already installed and was not purchased from the mac store, Do you want to buy facetime 1.0.5". Which I then procede to buy and it states that the purchase cannot be completed as facetime is already installed and that I should check software update for available updates... and when i do there is no updates for facetime?. I'm really confused and not sure how to go about to resolve this. Please bare with me as it's the first time I've ever used a macbook.
Please can someone help, it would be very much appreciated (Also, sorry for the long message).

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