The App Whisperer In A Secret Central London Virgin Media Bunker – Video!
Last week I had a great time with the team at Virgin Media in their super secret Central London Bunker – normally the preserve of MP’s and the like but on this occasion for myself and a few other colleagues of mine. The reason for the bunker meeting was to take a closer look at their brand new Broadband Super Hub, it’s incredibly impressive and superfast. According to VM it is the best performing WiFi device available today – it’s 20% faster and further reaching than any other and has better range and coverage thanks to an additional wireless antenna.
One point I was particularly impressed with was the dual-band concurrent technology – this allows you to access two WiFi channels when you’re using the internet – so if you have some older devices running 2.4GHz and new devices running the less congested route 5GHz – then there’s no need to keep switching – the Super Hub will automatically ensure your device is connected to the correct channel.
The SuperHub is exclusive to Virgin Media customers and if you’d like to learn more about it, please feel free to post any questions at the end of this article and we will run them past the VM team.
If you’re thinking about switching your broadband provider or taking up a new one, then we strongly recommend you check out VM, it’s what we use and we’ve been really pleased with their service and most importantly their speed.
In the meantime, check me out in the bunker (I’m on the sofa, sitting between the Head of Product Development Broadband – Gareth Lister and Nikki Moore the gadget girl on BBC 2.
To find out more about Virgin Media’s Broadband services, go here.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
