AirDrop not working between two MacBook Pros

I have a late-2013 Retina MBP running Mavericks. When trying to send files via AirDrop between my laptop and another MBP (non-Retina, circa 2010) also running Mavericks, I have intermittent success. Both machines can usually see each other, and I am able to attempt to send files between them, but more than half the time the receiving computer fails to receive the request. It just never shows up. Everything seems to work fine on the sending end.
It doesn't matter which machine is doing the sending or receiving. Restarting doesn't matter. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, no rhyme or reason I can see. Just now I tried to send a PDF from the non-Retina to the Retina: success. Five minutes later I tried another PDF: no luck. I tried to send a file from the Retina to the non-Retina: again, no luck. Both machines can still see each other. Both laptops are only a foot apart and didn't even move in the interim. What is going on?

I know what you mean.
Searching around, one reasonable thing to try is trashing these preference files:
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.P2PSupervisor.plist
/Library/Preferences/System Configuration/CaptiveNetworkSupport/Settings.plist
Maybe restart.
Other things:
Reset NVRAM and PRAM
start up in Safe Mode
Sacrifice a lamb.

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