you can try increasing the telemetry timeout value in the system settings dialog.
If it is flip/flopping in and out of a "paused' state, that almost certainly means that the incoming telemetry interval is exceeding the default 200ms value periodically. The telemetry is recieved and processed after every simulation frame, which is equivalent to your frame rate.
There would be no harm, for example, in setting the value to 400ms