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I ended up running a script on launch that pings 127.0.0.1 every 5 seconds - my Wifi was disconnecting every few minutes and this has fixed the problem for the last 6 months for me.

edit: actually pinging the router, 192.168.1.1 etc. Script is:

#! /bin/sh

ping 192.168.1.1 > /dev/null 2>&1

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That makes no sense what so ever.

Pinging your loopback address just shows that your localhost is still there.

If you were to write a script that instead pulled the local IPv4 address you are getting - that might be a little more sensical?

On Linux, that packet wouldn't leave the device either. You have to ping another host on your subnet or the kernel won't queue the packet for transmission on a hardware network interface.

Interesting, will give that a go when next I notice it happening (it's intermittent for me too which is good + bad... hard to repro :)

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