Hi Michael; I did two runs on both, notebook and desktop. The first run started: 2021-09-01_21:10:24 for the notebook 2021-09-01_21:11:03 for the desktop Even starting a little later, the desktop reached the near end of the download much faster. As the snapshot was fresh, I interrupt both runs manually and did a second run on both to reevaluate the mirrors hopping for a changing result due the ongoing mirror syncing. As you pointed out, the second run detected that several files were already in the cache but some files were still missing and were downloaded with a big speed difference again. I remember the last file reached around 70KB/s on the notebook and around 280KB/s on the desktop so a 4x difference with plenty of bandwidth avaialble from my ISP. My suggestion is to compare the sessions highlighted above from laptop and desktop first run because that is the session that got most of the files downloaded on both machines. I did my own comparison using these two files (crafted from the full log) but couldn't find anything useful: zypper.log-20210902_notebook_a_2021-09-01_21:10:24_small-version zypper.log-20210902_desktop_a_2021-09-01_21:11:03_small-version