Took hours to download mainnet-beta snapshot

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What is the outcome that you are trying to reach?

Reducing time to download snapshot
Downloading snapshot from known validator can take hours to finish since the speed is low.

Describe the solution you would like

1. Adding downloading snapshot in user-data script. Following is a sample script

cd /var/solana/data/ledger
wget --trust-server-names http://entrypoint3.mainnet-beta.solana.com/snapshot.tar.bz2
wget --trust-server-names http://entrypoint3.mainnet-beta.solana.com/incremental-snapshot.tar.bz2
sed -i "s/--log -/--no-snapshot-fetch --log -/g" /home/solana/bin/validator.sh
cd -

2. leverage https://github.com/c29r3/solana-snapshot-finder
3. TBD

Describe alternatives you have considered

Additional context

[frbrkoala]

Thank you for suggestion! Will explore it as an add-on feature for Solana. Depending on location, snapshot download time varies. For the last couple of tests it took 1.5-2 hours to download the snapshot the default way. How long does it take to do it with the suggested script?

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[cex-trader]

Thank you for suggestion! Will explore it as an add-on feature for Solana. Depending on location, snapshot download time varies. For the last couple of tests it took 1.5-2 hours to download the snapshot the default way. How long does it take to do it with the suggested script?

depend on the location & bandwidth, snapshot only takes several minutes. how to support this way.