Connection dropping when WAN DHCP lease is renewed every 1 hour

I've noticed brief connection interruptions for a couple months now and have only recently decided to dig into the issue.  I finally narrowed it down to the WAN DHCP lease renewal process.  My WAN lease is only set to 1 hour by xfinity, cannot be changed on my end.  Every time the lease renews i drop 2-3 pings (pinging 8.8.8.8).  This has become very disruptive as it happens every hour and interrupts meetings, or other connection oriented applications.  Is there a reason xfinity is setting the lease time to 1 hour? Can this be updated to something like 24 hours to limit this interruption???