Helium Hotspot 101 (2024)

FAQs

How to maximize helium mining? ›

Antenna placement

Getting your antenna outside and up high is critical to achieving maximum earnings. Everyone has seen the stock photos of an HNT miner sitting on a window sill with a stock antenna. Forget about that ! It's purely marketing and earnings will only be a fraction of what they could be.

Please allow at least three minutes after successful Hotspot registration for the device to be ready to start broadcasting the “Helium Mobile” Wi-Fi network.

The Helium Hotspot provides a WiFi configuration interface via the device's BLE services. The following are instructions for how to configure a Hotspot's WiFi.

The network daily average reward rate at time of writing is 0.10 HNT per day.

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Sensor Coverage

Placing your Hotspot in an elevated position can help to ensure you have as much line-of-sight to as many potential IoT sensors as possible, thereby increasing the amount of rewardable data transfer flowing through your Hotspot.

Helium makes make money when devices pay to send or receive data or to gelocate themselves. Miners earn both Helium tokens and transaction fees. They also designed an open-source standards-compliant wireless network protocol called WHIP.

Helium Mobile requires customers to bring their own phone to the service, and customers' data speeds may be slowed after they consume 30GB in a month. T-Mobile is Helium Mobile's MVNO network provider.

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How many hotspots do you need for Helium? ›

According to Helium Hotspots Map, there are currently 3,831 active mobile hotspots in the network and 357,087 active hotspots for internet-of-things devices.

**Providing Network Coverage**: Users can earn MOBILE tokens by setting up a Helium 5G Hotspot, which acts like a mini cell tower, expanding the network coverage. These hotspots are available from makers in the Helium Ecosystem. Once set up properly, your 5G Hotspot will start earning MOBILE tokens[2].

"I think it's certainly a big deal," Amir Haleem, CEO of Nova Labs (which operates the MVNO), told Light Reading. Nova Labs is the creator of the Helium network and continues to work with the wider Helium Foundation to promote the DeWi model.

THE RIGHT LOCATION — Location is the most important aspect of earning maximum HNT. Do a thorough location assessment. Check at least 3 potential locations; you'd be surprised at the difference even 100 meters can make. MAXIMUM ELEVATION — Get your antenna outside and as high as possible.

A good rule of thumb to start approaching 90% of optimum earnings is at least 20′ above your roof and surrounding roofs. That antenna is on top of a 23′ pole on top of a 15′ high roof in suburban San Diego. Anecdotal reports show that even a *1 meter* elevation difference can noticeably affect earnings.

Sensor Coverage

Placing your Hotspot in an elevated position can help to ensure you have as much line-of-sight to as many potential IoT sensors as possible, thereby increasing the amount of rewardable data transfer flowing through your Hotspot.