New T450s dropping wifi sporadically

I recieved my new T450s on Tuesday, any everything's working great so far except that I will occasionally loose wireless. Last night I did a reinstall (windows 8 reset), however, the issue seems to have persisted.
Randomly I will received the "limited connection" on the wifi icon in the task bar. Running the network troubleshooter, which toggles the wifi adapter on and off seems to fix it. When this is happening, I am unable to ping my gateway.
C:\windows\system32>ping 10.0.0.1
Pinging 10.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data&colon;
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 10.0.0.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
I'm happy to supply any further information needed for diagnosis.

jad67 wrote:
I recieved my new T450s on Tuesday, any everything's working great so far except that I will occasionally loose wireless. Last night I did a reinstall (windows 8 reset), however, the issue seems to have persisted.
Randomly I will received the "limited connection" on the wifi icon in the task bar. Running the network troubleshooter, which toggles the wifi adapter on and off seems to fix it. When this is happening, I am unable to ping my gateway.
Are you not using Windows 8.1? Wi-Fi works better than Windows 8.
Which WLAN card do you have?
Turn off Power Management in the WLAN card.
Make sure you have the latest WLAN driver.
Try other WLAN driver versions (from Lenovo and from manf).
Try different wireless access points. Some play worse with some wireless clients than others.
Hope that helps,
John
ThinkPad T450s [ i7-5600U | 8GB | 1TB SSD | Full HD IPS | 802.11ac | BT | Webcam | FR | Win8.1Pro64 ]

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