It seems that the updates on dom0 are also affected:
sudo qubes-dom0-update
Using sys-firewall as UpdateVM to download updates for Dom0; this may take some
time...
Running command on VM: 'sys-firewall'...
Checking for dom0 updates...
Last metadata expiration check: 1 day, 16:07:48 ago on Sat
I managed to complete the updates after 45m, I followed your suggestion and
bounced the template VM and rerun the 'dnf update --refresh' command, however
the issue persists - the same painful slowness while fetching the repositories:
[root@fedora-23 ~]# dnf update --refresh
RPM Fusion for