Gigabit Fiber in a 1920s Coolidge Corner Building

Symmetrical fiber for the Beacon Street apartment blocks and the Harvard Street storefronts. Our headquarters are here, in 02446.

Serving Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA — ZIP 02446.

Coolidge Corner is where Boston Broadband is headquartered, so it is the neighborhood we know best and the one where we have the least excuse for a bad install. It is also one of the harder places in Greater Boston to wire.

The apartment stock along Beacon Street and the streets running off it is largely pre-war: brick, four to six stories, built in the 1910s and 1920s, with lath-and-plaster walls, steam heat and no conduit left behind by anyone imagining a future that included fiber.

What a pre-war building means for the install

In a 1925 brick building the fiber enters at the basement demarcation point and then has to get upstairs. Generally three ways: the original telephone riser if it still has room, the rear stairwell if it is a legal path, or a new low-profile run. Which applies is a property of your building, not your street.

Ownership is the other constant. Many Beacon Street buildings are condominium associations rather than single landlords, so an install that touches common areas needs trustee or board sign-off. We take that conversation on — but tell us early, so it lands on an agenda instead of a queue.

Plaster is the one people do not see coming. Lath-and-plaster walls, some with wire mesh behind them, absorb 5 GHz Wi-Fi in a way modern drywall does not, and one router at one end of a long pre-war apartment will not cover it. We would rather run wired backhaul to a second access point than sell you a gigabit you cannot receive in the back bedroom.

Harvard Street is a small-business street

The retail spine — the Coolidge Corner Theatre, the restaurants, the independent shops that make the intersection what it is — largely runs on connections sized for a card terminal fifteen years ago. A storefront today carries point of sale, a cloud back office, cameras and a guest network on one line, and the upload fails first.

Business fiber starts at $89/mo for 300 Mbps symmetrical, with 1 Gbps at $159/mo. Static IPv4 is +$20/mo where a shop or a practice needs a fixed endpoint for a VPN or a payment gateway, and a Cloud PBX extension is $45/mo with taxes and fees included.

Being local here is a scheduling fact, not a slogan

Our office is a short walk from the Coolidge Corner stop on the Green Line C. That is why a truck roll into 02446 is measured in minutes, and why the person who answers the phone knows which side of Beacon Street a building sits on.

Plans and pricing in Coolidge Corner

Residential fiber runs $30/mo for 300 Mbps to $300/mo for 10 Gbps, every tier symmetrical, no contract, no data cap. Full lineup on the plans and pricing page; business tiers are separate.

A one- or two-bedroom in a Beacon Street building is well served by 300 Mbps at $30/mo. The gigabit plan is worth it when the apartment is long enough to need two access points anyway.

Checking a Coolidge Corner address

Put the address into the checker on our homepage, with the unit number. In a pre-war building the unit genuinely matters: two apartments at the same street address can sit on different risers.

If your building is not live yet, leave the address anyway. In an association building, three residents asking is often what gets fiber onto a board agenda — the step that actually unblocks it.

Coolidge Corner fiber internet FAQ

Can a 1920s brick building in Coolidge Corner actually get fiber?
Yes. Age changes the route, not the outcome. Fiber comes in at the basement demarcation point and goes up the existing riser, a rear stairwell or a new low-profile run. The survey decides which.
My condo board has to approve it. What do you need from them?
Permission to bring the entry into the building and use a common-area path upstairs. We deal with trustees and property managers in 02446 regularly and will do the explaining — tell us early enough to make an agenda.
Why is my Wi-Fi bad in a pre-war apartment even on a fast plan?
Lath-and-plaster walls, sometimes with wire mesh behind them, are far harder on 5 GHz Wi-Fi than drywall. A wired link to a second access point fixes more than a faster plan will.
Do you serve businesses on Harvard Street?
Yes. Business fiber starts at $89/mo for 300 Mbps symmetrical and runs through $159/mo for 1 Gbps, with static IPv4 at +$20/mo.
Is there equipment rental?
No. The Wi-Fi router is optional at $10/mo if you want us to supply it; otherwise bring your own.

Check your Coolidge Corner building

Enter the address and the unit. If the building needs a board conversation first, we would rather start it now than in six months. Call (617) 693-9434 or email [email protected].

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