I’m in the Bay Area, perhaps they are routing traffic here elsewhere?

like the trains there is probably a northern route and southern route that would make sense

Bay Area traffic is just a distributed denial of service attack.

I'm on AT&T in Long Beach and I'm able to get on on cell data. Sometimes the warning shows up, but it's fine when I refresh

According to this network map from 2009, that makes sense. You’re roughly in LA so your traffic is routing between the route through STL and the southern one. Where as my nearest backbone goes through Chicago.

interesting it doesn't have jackson but I was just basing this on a phone conversation with a friend who worked in telecom a good while ago its possible his memory is off or things changed "roughly" lol probably should have done a modicum of opsec before posting a now viral thread about IP routing

Oh, I didn’t mean to say that you were in the LA area! @jordy-r.bsky.social said she was in Long Beach, so I was generalizing there. Jackson, MS not being shown might be an artifact of how old this map is, it’s from a 2009 leak so it could actually be 20 years old.