Starting with libzypp-17.31.7 we will have a new handler for the media backend that has some improvements to hopefully help ease the problems with slow connections. - uses new curl based downloader code which allows us more flexibility when optimizing our approach - tries to establish less connections when downloading files - zsync support ( enabled per file on the server side ) - less media.n/media requests - scales the chunked download sizes to max nr of connections ( via multi range http requests ) Since this is currently a tech preview it has to be enabled with a environment var: # env ZYPP_MEDIANETWORK=1 zypper or in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf: ------- [main] techpreview.ZYPP_MEDIANETWORK=1 ------- Note that this is different from the old MEDIANETWORK tech preview. Which was removed when we started to work on its successor the zypp async backend which is still WIP.