I recommend ordering the base boards for these, they have the power supply and caps installed.
With that said, I have a sender and receiver and have a very good connection between two devices going ONE WAY. If I switch the sender/receiver roles of the hardware it still works.
However if I attempt to have the receiver send data back (stopListening, radio.write) all kinds of problems show up.
I am trying to have a "heartbeat" or confirmation of commands send but I have issues doing that, one way communication only seems to work fine though.
I'll report back here with my findings but I ordered the base boards from amazon and hope that clears up my issues.
The example given in the arduino wiki for a "joystick" is also only one way communication. There is a pingpair_blokcing example in a fork of the code that works ok, but still has issues.
Its just odd though, 1 way communication is very fast an 0 errors, its like there is a glitch in the stopListening and StartListening switch.
I am working on a wireless trailer harness here. I want to have a "heartbeat" so if it loses connection I can have a warning of some sort. However its spray and pray for now until I get this tracked down. I'll be posting a video and some code shortly on my project. You may get some information eventually if you watch.