First of all, thank you Synapse for providing this data portal and all the collaborators for depositing their valulable data. I am trying to download raw RNA-seq data files (from the ROSMAP study), total size of 4.3 TB. The estimated download time for these data is >5k hours, which is more than half a year. This would result in a download speed of < 300 KB/s, which is obviously orders of magnitude below what should be possible. I am wondering whether this is due to my region (Germany), or if other users from overseas have experienced faster speeds. Maybe there is a way to increase download speed programatically? Or, let's say I wanted to batch-download muptiple files at once using the R client -- will it max out my internet line, or will it altogether be restricted to 300 KB/s? Unfortunately, I cannot tell because the R client will not inform you about download progress or speeds. Otherwise, it would actually make more sense to have someone send the data on a physical hard drive (while defying the purpose of the platform!)...