I'm curious about using 802.11 from my car.

No less an authority than Jim Thompson explained to me at BAWUG
last night that 802.11 was useless when the two communicating 
systems had a greater than 40-mph speed differential.  This is
apparently due to the doppler shift.

As he pointed out, this wouldn't be a big problem with cars driving
past access points, but would make it tough to put a directed
antenna pointing down the road, since the cars would close in
on it at fairly high speeds.  I guess an omni way off the side of
the road could provide service for a reasonable distance.

Could anybody expand on this for me?  I have to admit that I've
had visions dancing in my head of in-car access for quite awhile,
and I'd hate to think that it was unlikely to work...

Thanks,

Kevin
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