PHOTO GALLERY: Mediacom outage sends people in search of Internet downtown

February 26, 2013 | 4:16 p.m. CST

With a snow storm leading to closed campuses and downed Internet on Tuesday, people gathered at Uprise Bakery to enjoy Wi-Fi connections.

Uprise Bakery was crowded with patrons using the bakery's Wi-Fi Tuesday because of the Mediacom Internet outage. A fiber-optic wire was cut during the Monday night snowstorm, leaving Columbia Mediacom subscribers without Internet in their homes.
| Roxana Pop

MU students clockwise from left, Susan Kessler, Maggie Pace, Kate Hrdina and Monica Zawicki work on homework at Uprise Bakery on Hitt Street on Tuesday afternoon. The students live on East Campus, and they did not have any Internet service because of the Mediacom outage. | Roxana Pop

MU sophomore Carleigh Cavender sits with her laptop inside Starbucks on Ninth Street on Tuesday. Cavender came to Starbucks for Internet service after Mediacom Internet customers experienced outages Monday night and Tuesday. | Roxana Pop