My local brewers Shepherd Neame are now rolling out Wi-Fi through parts of their estate. A nice move, and they're doing it in a joint initiative with wireless network provider Telabria.

It's a neat sounding project, a nice bit of symbiosis where Sheps provide a location to host the kit and a point where people can sign up and get info about the product and Telabria provide the tech know-how and plumb the pub based mesh network into their RuralMesh service. RuralMesh aims to provide a broadband solution for rural communities that aren't served by adsl.

It's an award winning initiative, and the latest rollout of pubs just happens to include my local!

Rather curiously, it's neither rural nor in an area unserved by adsl, but if they can get a good signal down to the beach and Tankerton Bay Sailing Club I'm sure it'll still be very popular.