I know in the Westell modems, when you visit the "My Network" section of the modem there is a button on the right hand side of the page to disable Network Scanning. I don't have an accurate location of where this may be in the ActionTec, but if it is present it should be found in about the same location.
No luck YET in finding anything in network stats that would turn off this network scanning bulls**t. This new modem appears to work better - but do NOT like this constant flickering of my nic card's light and the associated traffic - however benign.
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