Wifi Disappearance

[wastedtalent89]

So I have an older laptop, about to scrap it. But before I do, I was wondering if anyone had any insight on this.

 

I connect to my home wifi on it, no issue. After X amount of time (Sometimes minutes, sometimes hours, even sometimes days), my wifi disappears. Not ALL the wifi connections, just....mine. I find all my neighbors. But mine is nowhere to be found. I either wait between a few minutes to a few hours and it'll re-appear. Or I can restart the laptop and it's back.

 

Now before anyone says "Check your wifi modem/router", I have anywhere from 1-3 other devices on it at the same time. Absolutely no issues with them. It's only this one laptop.

 

Would this just be that the wifi card is going out in the laptop, it's showing it's age? Or is there some other gremlin here, seeing as it does detect neighbor's connections?

[Akira Shimazu]

Probably just old age.

[WambleCropped]

probaly the laptops so old that the  voltage going to the wifi card  get's screwed up or the communication between the os and the card is also  screwed up

[wastedtalent89]

Appreciate the help guys. It's close enough to being scrapped anyways, just thought PERHAPS maybe something else was going on.