The helium miners are radios, you connect them to your home internet and they are supposed to connect together and build a stronger "subnet" of some sort.

I bought a bobcat miner and it'll take about 20 weeks from when I bought it to get it and set it up. I'm sure it's not very profitable, just like any miner, until more "access points" start popping up and building out that network.

Remember, we're a very large planet and we all occupy a very small space distant from each other. If we have two helium miners within range of each other they connect and they produce HNT token amounts.

if you are in the middle of nowhere. there's no point in mining helium. If you're in a city, chances of fluid token emission are logically higher.

That's my takeaway, I'm not really sure if HNT is mined without being connected to another miner... I really don't know for sure until I get the miner setup.

If I mine enough to ROI on the miner for $500 between now and next year, I suppose it's fine - the key is low power, low bandwidth device that just prints HNT.
cool.