Long story short, had about 3-4 xfinity technician come in to fix our slow internet speed that was consistently dropping and failing. In the end, it turned out to be the coax cable outside of our house that runs from the cable box to the modem Xfi gateway that was old and corroded. Since then...
A wifi card in a hp laptop sometimes disconnects from wifi network and sometimes completely disappears. After disappearing we reboot to bring it back. and sometimes one reboot ain't enough.
It's not a wifi access point issue because no other device suffers from this. even the second hp laptop...