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I run both in a commercial location (retail/office). Helium outdoor did well with POC and some data provided via Helium mobile. Put up Xnet outdoor and it did great (ATT is huge in my area) 5000 Xnet per month. That all changed when Helium added ATT data offload. I saw a huge spike Helium data and I was pretty fired up until I got my Xnet rewards for the same period and rewards were down to 500 Xnet. While I can’t get confirmation from XNET but I believe the Helium unit is sucking up all ATT data offload and crushing the XNET unit and effectively canceling it out. It is my understanding the XNET’s only souce of revenue is the ATT data offload. Again, this only my opinion based on N=1 observation. It has been three months and XNET rewards have not recovered. The XNET hotspot has had 100% uptime over this time period and I think it has very slightly better install.
Mount it on a pole. The Wingbit part of the project doesn’t care about the trees. Geodnet does require a clear view of the sky and raising it up even slightly improves performance. One of the best things about the dashboard is how quickly it responds. Test it out in varoius spots on your location to maximize the satellite connections. Both are great projects
