[Any way to add manually installed mods to Vortex?]

Drag the archives for the mods into the Vortex DOWNLOADS FOlder, Vortex will find them

 

OR, you can always drag them to the DROP FILES HERE bar in Vortex

So simple, yet if you are unfamiliar, so elusive. Thanks for the information.

[Have premium..but dl speeds are terrible, 12k - 30k, lucky if I get over 100k]

Same issues here. This is not optimal for premium users to have to deal with.

[Vortex is only downloading one mod at a time?]

I'm having some download and bandwidth issues at the moment also. Nexus, you need to get this fixed. My connection is fine. Did a speed test for my ISP and found it is hitting over 300mbs. Nexus is at a big fat zero!

[Just discovered Mods]

I can't believe I just discovered Mods after gaming for almost 20 years on my PC. I guess I was just satisfied with the vanilla game and blissful in my ignorance. Well, that's ok, because the next 20 years of gaming will be amazeballs!

Thanks to the moder community, keep up the good work!