diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 319c0d4..6996fdb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -191,6 +191,42 @@ The high level client is an instance of `Client`, but it contains the high level
 
   download a server file to local.
 
+### Example with progress bar (download from server)
+
+You can easily combine this module with the `progress` npm package, to get live progress data in your commandline interface. Example below:
+
+```javascript
+var scp2 = require('scp2');
+var ProgressBar = require('progress');
+
+var client = new scp2.Client();
+var bar;
+
+client.on('transfer', function(buf, downloaded, total) {
+  if (!bar) {
+    bar = new ProgressBar('  downloading [:bar] :rate/bps :percent :etas', {
+      complete: '=',
+      incomplete: ' ',
+      width: 20,
+      total: total
+    });
+  }
+  bar.tick(buf.length);
+});
+
+scp2.scp({
+  host: ...,
+  username: ...,
+  password: ...,
+  path: '/path/to/src/file'
+}, '/path/to/dest/file', client, function(err) {
+  if (err) {
+    console.log(err);
+  }
+
+  // Do stuff with the downloaded file
+});
+```
 
 ## Events
 
diff --git a/lib/client.js b/lib/client.js
index 4af629d..47a2966 100644
--- a/lib/client.js
+++ b/lib/client.js
@@ -292,18 +292,28 @@ Client.prototype.download = function(src, dest, callback) {
       return callback(err);
     }
 
-    var sftp_readStream = sftp.createReadStream(src);
-    sftp_readStream.on('error', function(err){
-      callback(err);
-    });
-    sftp_readStream.pipe(fs.createWriteStream(dest))
-    .on('close',function(){
-      self.emit('read', src);
-      self.close();
-      callback(null);
-    })
-    .on('error', function(err){
-      callback(err);
+    sftp.open(src, 'r', function(err, fd) {
+      sftp.fstat(fd, function(err, stats) {
+        var bufferSize = stats.size;
+        var bytesDownloaded = 0;
+
+        var sftp_readStream = sftp.createReadStream(src);
+        sftp_readStream.on('data', function(data) {
+          bytesDownloaded += data.length;
+          self.emit('transfer', data, bytesDownloaded, bufferSize);
+        })
+        sftp_readStream.on('error', function(err){
+          callback(err);
+        });
+        sftp_readStream.pipe(fs.createWriteStream(dest))
+        .on('close',function(){
+          self.emit('read', src);
+          callback(null);
+        })
+        .on('error', function(err){
+          callback(err);
+        });
+      });
     });
   });
 };