well that you will not get the 10,000 is normal if you do not have any connection. Besides - the processing of transactions got corrupted becaused of a chain async. But you should have at  least 3 connections. Are you sure that you have updated to V0.56? Check debug-> get version
Only the latest version will get a connection to the network since we use different ports on each new update as for now.

If you have the correct version please try "check peerlist" in the debug tab and see if that helps