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is Lorawan widely used by any IoT customers? from what i can tell, it's a pretty cool technology but has mostly remained a toy for hobbyists to play with.

which is probably why cisco is bailing.

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yes at Seam we've seen a number of large deployment in multi-family buildings where you need to deploy devices (locks, thermostats, water leak sensors) but wiring the whole building with wifi isn't an option.

> wiring the whole building with wifi

Now there's an oxymoron

With Lorawan or meshtastic, what’s the practical max range for a line of sight connection between 2 devices (or a device and the base)? I have a need to mount a weather station on top of a mountain and our free flight club’s landing zone is about a mile and a half line of sight from there. The mountain gets a very weak cell signal (closest tower is probably 2-3 miles away) and would be great to have a better solution.

That sounds like exactly the sort of use case where I usually see lorawan deployed

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