Vonage & Airport Extreme & keeping time on the phone

I can not get my phone to keep the correct CST time while using Vonage with the Airport Extreme. I think it has something to do with the Airport Extreme setting as Vonage has the correct setting. Has anyone had this problem? Have you figured out how to fix it?
MacBook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   airport extreme / vonage / keeping time on the phone

Thank you for your prompt response. I have actually figured it out. I will post my solution here in case others that are reading this have a similar issue. Here are the steps I took:
Open airport utility. (Applications-utilities-airport utility).
Selected the Airport Extreme on left column, then clicked on the manual set up button on the left button. This beings up a few options on the top of the box. Airport should be selected. In the inner box there are fiver buttons, selecting wireless brings up a list of options, radio channel has two options from the drop down menu, select manual. This brings up an edit button. Going into this option submenu provides the opportunity to have a 5GHz freq network on a specific channel.
I have been running a few tests on my network to check performance. I have a movie running on my AppleTV. On My MBA I tried a bunch of stuff to tax the network. I let the MBA sync with mobile Me. In the meantime I played a quicktime movie trailer in HD (in loop mode), downloaded an HD trailer (over 100mb), and surfed the net. So far, the MBA has been cruising at a cool 140 degrees, no stalling.
Note: Before running the tests, I made sure I selected the network I created with the 5GHz freq in title in parenthesis.

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