# Slow downloads and the best usage for downloading data via Nemo portal

**URL:** <https://community.brain-map.org/t/slow-downloads-and-the-best-usage-for-downloading-data-via-nemo-portal/1935>\
**Category:** Technical\
**Tags:** rna-seq, how-to\
**Created:** [November 2, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.brain-map.org/t/slow-downloads-and-the-best-usage-for-downloading-data-via-nemo-portal/1935 "2022-11-02T15:29:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![jkniehaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@jkniehaus](https://community.brain-map.org/u/jkniehaus)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.brain-map.org/t/slow-downloads-and-the-best-usage-for-downloading-data-via-nemo-portal/1935/1 "2022-11-02T15:29:57Z")

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I am downloading fastq files from the nemo data portal using the ‘portal\_client’ tool via:  
`portal_client -m nemomanifest.tsv`  
This downloading method is quite slow.  
I notice the URLs in the manifest are from a google cloud platform (beginning with gs://) and am curious whether specifying the downloads as being from a google bucket will speed things up.  
The portal\_client requires specifying a google-client-secrets file (.json) and google-project-id specification for downloading google cloud storage buckets.  
Is there a place where I can download the client-secrets file?  
Any guidance as to speeding up downloads would be a huge help, thanks!