BrayleeNicole:
I'm a little confused, in your example it has the part about 6 pipes that can receive messages...are the 6 pipes not what is communicating between other devices?
An nRF24 has only a single wireless and all the message must come (or go) through it, one at a time. For that reason I don't see much reason to use more than 1 pipe.
The idea of pipes can be a bit confusing. Think of them as 6 shelves onto which the mail for different residents in an apartment block can be placed. All the letters come through the same mail slot (the radio receiver listening on Channel N) and when they fall on the floor someone picks them up, looks at the name of the recipient (the address the message was sent to) and puts them on the correct shelf (the pipe that has been assigned the same address as the message) or shreds them if they are for a recipient who lives in another block (i.e. if they are for an address that is not assigned to any of the pipes on this nRF24)
By assigning different addresses to the 6 pipes it makes it possible for the receiver to know who sent a message. But that only works if you have only 6 different senders.
On the other hand if each message includes a byte that identifies the sender a much larger number of individual senders can be easily identified even if they are all go to the same address.
...R