David Rogers

I've just experienced this frustrating problem too. In the UK. I downloaded the C172 sound set (20Mb) and it took 15 minutes, with speeds of 10-30 kilobytes per second. It's just unusable for anything larger. This has literally forced me to buy the last few products from other retailers. Minutes before buying the BAW 172 soundset, I was downloading from MSFS Marketplace at 170-280 MBPS ! I was having this same problem 3-4 months ago and it caused me to not buy from Orbx Central for a few months - today was the 'test day' to see how it would go. This has got to be impacting your revenue stream.

Firstly, I tried to find a forum section dedicated to Orbx Central, but it was read only. Orbx Central was for years my preferred retailer. However, about 4 months ago I started getting ridiculously slow download speeds and thus haven't used it since then. Today, I thought I'd give it another try and purchased the Boris Audio Works C172 sound set. It is 20Mb in size. Let me say that immediately before purchase this, I have just downloaded the latest MSFS update, which downloaded at an average speed of 170Mbps. I have a very high speed broadband and connection, here in the UK. I purchased the C172 sound set at 20Mb and the highest speed I had from Orbx Central was 30 kbps ...... kilobytes! The problem is 100% not at my end. I have looked at the downloader options in Orbx Central. All seems to be set up logically, there was nothing I could find that would lead to these speeds that are many hundred times slower than I get from any other download source (inc. MSFS, Just Flight, Simmarket, etc, etc). What on Earth could be causing this? As it is, for a 20Mb product to take around 15 minutes to download, I would not dare download anything larger. I have been purchasing from Orbx since 2008. I want to buy products from you but cannot with these insanely slow speeds. Can you offer any help?

No that definitely won't work. I kept the boxed version of FSX installed on my PC, and then installed FSX:SE afterwards. All of the FTX Global, Vector, etc installers that I have run, have automatically located FSX:SE in it's correct location ( C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\FSX ) without me having to do anything. I haven't gotten around to installing FTX England yet though, to check that. When you run the FTX England installer, and see the old (MS) path, is there a 'browse' button or icon that would allow you to manually browse to the FSX:SE location, that I've quoted above? Because that should work as an alternative. I've read a couple of posts on other forums that suggest that, ironically, addons are installing into FSX:SE easier and more smoothly on PCs that have FSX:SE installed after but alongside, the original boxed FSX. I know the registries are handled differently, and even the FSX.CFG has different names according to whether you only have FSX:SE installed (in which case it installs as FSX.CFG), or have original FSX installed as well (in which case it installs as FSX_SE.CFG). Hope you get sorted.

Yes, the cost of living in general is horrendous in the UK now - not just credit crunch related! ..... it's been between £3 and £4 for a pint of beer in the 'towny' bars for quite a long time now. Last week, I ordered a Vodka Mojita in one bar in Newcastle ....... it was gorgous, fresh mint leaves, etc, etc, but it cost almost SEVEN QUID !

Hey Teecee - a Geordie indeed! ...... (although I now get some strife from my mates for living 'down south' - I'm now in Durham, 15 miles south of Newcastle! ). I often wondered whether the good people pf Newcasle, NSW are Geordies as well ? ....... if not they should be ! Newcastle Brown Ale ain't quite what it used to be but it can still catch you out ...... it's not strong in Alcohol % but more than 4 bottles seems to have something of a psychotic effect !! David

Great thread - very interesting to read about everyone! Forum Name: David Rogers Other Forum Names: The-GPS-Kid, Pro-Sim, Davros, Astradan Real Name: (surprisingly) David Rogers Bio: I'm 36 and was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North East England. After School and College, etc, I worked for 10 years for a government security agency in the UK. I left this career on health grounds after developing Type 1 Diabetes (I inject 4 times daily). After leaving that career, I got into Business Operational Management, running sites in the Mobile Phone, Travel and Insurance industries in the UK. I became bored of dealing with the same people issues (!!!), so 6 years ago I trained and became a Project Manger. I work for a large global insurer now and I'm multi-disciplined : I work on various types of major projects and programmes from technology (recently managed a telephony tranformation to VoIP for 10,000 staff), to business reorganisation and offshoring. I have travelled a lot in my latest role, including 3 visits to India recently. I am married to my wonderful wife Sarah, and have a gorgous 7 month old daughter. I also have a 9 year old daughter from a previous relationship, who comes and stays with us at weekends. And of course, theres Denver, our dog and my best mate ! I am have been simming for many years and in 2007 I built a 737NG cockpit, mainly from fly engravity parts. great fun but I missed the versatiliyt of being able to fly in various aircrafts! So I dismantled the cockpit and now fly with a large monitor, yoke, pedals, throttles, GF radios, switches and panels, but essentially generic. I am currently enjoying GA flying more than the heavy complex airliners that I used to enjoy. I am an AVSIM Staff Review (I completed the Coffs Harbour Review) and I also self published my first novel late last year - A children's fantasy fiction piece. My travel dream is to visit a number of places in Oz and then to hop over to NZ.... I speak English, Spanish, a little German, and a little Sakart (Georgian). I want to thank John V and the team for giving us FTX - it is a life improving assett !! Best, David.