Nodes report 0 peers/0 bandwidth on telemetry

[tomaka]

Opening this issue to keep track of this discussion.
The problem has likely been introduced here and might be resolved by this PR.

cc @romanb

[romanb]

[..] and might be resolved by this PR.

I've tested this locally, of course, and am quite confident that it indeed resolves the problem.

[romanb]

I think this is resolved, feel free to reopen otherwise.