I did read the topic and so far everything is good except libreoffice. As I said I don't use it, I'm just testing. It's not my machine or my connection. I checked everything. About the LO manager downloading the packages from the LibreOffice servers itself, I don't have a clue.
Just in case I changed the pclos repos and it did not make any difference. It's not an issue for me but may be for others.
alex