At this point, I think I'm going to throw in the towel.
On day 1, I connected the LinkSys EA3500 to the ActionTec via ethernet and within 5 minutes my wireless was connected and giving me the speeds I expected.
I've tried 12 ways from Sunday to reconfigure the ActionTec and the EA 3500 to use the static adderss 192.169.1.2 and to turn of DNS following this link http://www.dslreports.com/faq/12506. No dice.
No matter what I do, the ActionTec auto assigns an address (192.168.1.14 today) and connections to the LinkSys are using a set of addresses in the 10.115.176.# range. I just get the feeing there is a step missing.
From the day I installed the EA3500 unitl now, I have had no speed issues or connectivity issues so I'm not sure if I'm chasing ghosts.
While this configuration issue is perplexing, since I have my connectivity, I'm not sure adding hours is the right choice.
Open to suggestions.