Wireless networking technology uses wireless stations like computers or devices with radios to transmit and receive data without wires. There are two main types of wireless networks: infrastructure networks with an access point that devices connect to and ad-hoc peer-to-peer networks without an access point where devices connect directly. Wireless networks use radio frequencies and transmission methods like frequency hopping spread spectrum or direct sequence spread spectrum to transmit data over the air. Newer standards are developing technologies like MIMO that use multiple antennas to improve wireless network performance and speeds.