Its like watching a car indicator, now its working, now its not, now its working.
There are going to be periods that there is no traffic or that you don't see a connection established. Personally I don't sit with my head in the program looking for problems I let it get on with it and I get on with what I have to do. Until I see a hard error displayed to the screen, life is good, its also short, enjoy life.
Frequently by the time you get around to reporting on the forums things have changed, as is the case here less than an hour later.
I don't know how we all survived for so long before the streaming updates were introduced. And we still have the VPS Updates, albeit without any announcements.