[Sephiroth]

There are so many variables that only VM will be able to finger what’s going on at any one time. To the best of my knowledge, the principal variables are:

1. The available meshing nodes in the VM network;
2. The reroute algorithms deployed to ensure everything runs, one way or another;
3. The peering arrangements, including alternatives during congestion;
4. For TBB, their peering arrangements;
5. What people, or attacks are doing at any given time.

In the past events shown in this thread, and seen from my perspective, there has been one occasion when the evening mountain appeared in my TBB graph; in none of the other cases did it show up. Whether or not that rules out TBB’s Internet access arrangements, I can’t tell because I don’t know them.

The balance of probability lies, imo, with what’s going on in the VM network and their recovery mechanisms. Spinning plates.