Thank you for your assistance and advice.
There is a application called 'Predator Sense' that gives Temperatures. I just had another disconnect and it indicates CPU: 56 C, GPU: 54 C and System: 39 C. I have noticed those temps to be higher, mid to upper 60s at times for the CPU. I will look into having someone more qualified than I clean my laptops cooling pathways.
Trouble shooting the SL connection: I went to 'BandWidth Place' and selected 'US - San Jose, CA' in the Server selection drop down and received the following results: Download: 29.87 Mbps; Upload: 3.19 Mbps; Ping: 90 ms. I know that is not necessarily very good, but is it bad enough to be the issue?