I've been thinking of a fix for that all week during Online Cypher before I posted that rule, I was officially going to say that in the event that both connections are bad, they can choose to either:
Play it out
Swap with someone in bracket
play off-stream
But now thinking about it, I am not sure what to do if they both have bad connections with one another, that was just a last second addition, the button checks are new and were supposed to be added with the original post but I forgot. :P