Moving In

Transportation

Carshare

Driving a car to–and parking on–campus can be a headache, not to mention expensive! With car-sharing, you can choose to leave your car at home without giving up access to a vehicle during the workday.

Zipcar is on the UW–Madison campus! Discounted personal memberships are available for UW students, staff, faculty, and UW Health employees. Join today!

For vehicle locations, individual membership information, and to sign up, visit the Zipcar website.

Madison Metro Buses

UW-Madison students are entitled to an Associated Students of Madison (ASM) bus pass good for unlimited travel on city bus routes. Contact the ASM office for more information. UW faculty and staff are eligible for a city bus pass for an annual fee of $48. To obtain your faculty pass, contact Transportation Services.

The UW Campus Bus is free to all riders. All campus routes are also on the official UW campus map. Routes 80 and 84 provide daytime service. While routes 80, 81, and 82 provide nighttime service.

Regional Bus Services

You can take the Badger Bus, Van Galder Bus, Greyhound Bus, Jefferson Lines, or Megabus to go from Madison to Milwaukee, Chicago, Minneapolis, and other destinations.

B-Cycle

Madison B-Cycle is an urban bicycle sharing program that lets you move about Madison to run an errand, grab lunch, or travel from a bus stop to another destination. Special rates apply for UW staff and students, with 350 bikes on Madison’s downtown campus. It can be an affordable option. Your membership allows you unlimited 30-minute rides and means you don’t have to worry about maintenance or locks.

Bus Route Planning Resources

• Plan your trip with Google Maps.
• It is also available in Spanish, Chinese (simplified), Korean, French, Russian, German, Hindi, Laotian, Arabic, and Vietnamese. Visit
• Get live arrival estimates at your favorite bus stops. You can also track where your bus is.

Internet

Securing Your Computer

It is extremely important that your computer is secure while accessing any campus network resources. If your computer becomes compromised, it will be removed from network access until it is repaired.

Configuring a Secure Wireless Access Point

For the most part, wireless routers are not necessary. However, if residents feel they need one or want to create their own private network for wireless printing or gaming, they can bring one. University Housing requires that all personal wireless access points be configured securely. This ensures that the owner of the wireless access point knows exactly who is connecting to it. You are responsible for all network traffic that passes through your access point.

Basic Troubleshooting

• Restart your computer. Make sure that the data cable is plugged in securely to both the computer’s network port and the data jack in your room/apartment. Make sure the cable is plugged into the data jack and not the beige phone jack.
• Check for flashing green and yellow lights near the network port on your computer. A green light on and a yellow/orange light flashing usually means the connection is working. If this is not the case, either the network card is misconfigured, the data jack is not working, or your data cable is bad.
• Try plugging the data cable into another data jack. It is unlikely that all the data jacks in the room/apartment are not functioning unless there is a network outage. To check for network issues, visit the campus outage page.
• Try using a different data cable. If you need a data cable, they are available for purchase at any Housing Dining Services convenience store, University Apartments Community Center, or DoIT tech store.

UWNet Wired Connections

All University Apartments have at least one active data jack (typically accessible via the in-room wireless access point) that you can connect to with an Ethernet cable. When a device is connected to the jack, you can select UWNet and then open a web browser, which will redirect you to a login page. If you need an Ethernet cable, they are available for purchase at any Housing Dining convenience store or at the University Apartments Community Center.

Wireless via UWNet

When living at University Apartments, you can connect for free to UWNet, UW-Madison’s wireless network service. To connect, simply select the network on a device and open a web browser, which redirects to a login page. All of our apartments include a wired high-speed internet connection, but only University Houses have access to the campus WiFi. Devices such as computers, cell phones, tablets, smart TVs, and gaming consoles can connect directly to UWNet. Some multi-cast devices, such as Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV Sticks, and Chromecasts, require a personal router to access UWNet.

Need Assistance?

For assistance with internet connections and general computing issues, contact the DoIT Help Desk.

Electric Service

Electric service is included in the rent for Harvey Street. In Eagle Heights and University Houses, residents must pay for electrical service to their apartments beginning on the first day their lease begins.

Prior to move-in, University Apartments will send you a form to fill out, which will place the service in your name. If you have additional questions about electrical service, contact MG&E at the information below:

Madison Gas & Electric (MG&E)
133 South Blair Street
Madison, WI 53703
(608) 252-7222