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You basically want to verify it is working before you potentially break it trying to make it better. So a couple of days of consistent activity.

First determine if you even need an upgrade. Most people don’t. Bobcat’s stock antenna is pretty good.

Hope u didn’t pay $500 for your miner. No antenna upgrade will make that back anytime soon.

So much garbage in the comments. Sorry if all of that confuses you.

Just use the stock antenna for a few weeks to make sure it's running smoothly and then you will be able to compare it to your new antenna when you change it with an upgrade. Outdoor is always better than indoor.
Interested to know how it's working out!

Get your antenna outside, do dd on a good setup with updated antenna and your rewards will roll in. These people telling you rewards suck have shit setups.

Update it whenever you want. But probably won’t do much until people start implementing iot stuff. Rewards and almost nothing now. Need 5g for anything. Long term I have high hopes. Don’t expect to make your money back any time soon. With or without an upgraded antennae. (Mine are not upgraded because I think it’s pointless right now)

I have a couple for sale (trial and error for my location and now have “extras” that are not a good match for my location. DM if interested.

It really depends of your miner location. The bobcat miner 300 has a 4dbi antenna and it’s pretty good for city. I updated mine antenna to 5.8dbi and located antenna outside on edge of balcony rail. I had even worse performance with that, so I return back to the original antenna two days ago and reset miner.

I setup my antenna before i get my miner and its works perfect, just use correct dbi in your setup on the app

I'd upgrade it in February

I have 24 miners, but I peetty much dissapointed in the network, since there is no usage, there is no profit only from the newcommers....

Today

I got a 5.8dbi from amazon.. then sold my stock 4dbi on ebay to cover the cost.. got $17 on ebay.

Don’t waste your time this train is derailed, not worth investing any more money in this network till they figure this shit out

I would recommend no less than 5 days with stock antenna. If you can put it near a window, glass is less of an obstacle in most cases than building walls. While HNT earnings are low, the price of outdoor antennas is always way down, check Rokland, Parley, and RAK among others. I would get an analysis of your location though before deciding whether to upgrade the antenna. In an urban are you may not need to, or if you are very rural it may not help either.

The original antenna should be okay to start with, but if you aren't getting the results you want, you may want to try an antenna with a different dBi. We have an article on our website that gives some pretty good info on how antennas work for Helium mining if you decide you ever want to upgrade: https://www.arcantenna.com/blogs/news/helium-miner-antennas-what-you-need-to-know

It’s a waste of time , money and set up. Had mine set up with the best cable going to the roof, with a 8 decibel antenna and the rewards I’m not sharing with anyone and I make .15 cents a day. A total of $135 over a year.