Lenovo hardware test "local connection test" failed for Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205

My Lenovo ThinkPad T430s occasionally has WiFi connectivity problems where it will work for a few minutes, and then connections will fail even though it is still connected to the AP with a strong signal. Disabling and re-enabling the adapter always fixes the issue, at least for a few minutes.

I have not been able to solve this problem, but something curious (and seemingly unrelated) popped up in the Lenovo Hardware Test results:

Local connection test: failed

My question: What exactly is the local connection test? I suspect this doesn't have anything to do with my WiFi troubles, and has more to do with all the VM virtual network adapters, VPN adapters, host file entries, and routing that I have on my machine.

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