diff --git a/benchmarks/requirements.txt b/benchmarks/requirements.txt
index 3fc8cac6..8af24458 100644
--- a/benchmarks/requirements.txt
+++ b/benchmarks/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-aiohttp==2.0.7
+aiohttp==3.8.5
diff --git a/benchmarks/run-benchmarks.py b/benchmarks/run-benchmarks.py
index f273e969..24a644d8 100755
--- a/benchmarks/run-benchmarks.py
+++ b/benchmarks/run-benchmarks.py
@@ -55,11 +55,9 @@ async def do_get(request):
             bs = rando + b'x' * 49 + b'\n'
         else:
             bs = b'x' * 79 + b'\n'
-        response.write(bs)
-        await response.drain()
+        await response.write(bs)
     if n % 80 > 0:
-        response.write(b'x' * (n % 80 - 1) + b'\n')
-        await response.drain()
+        await response.write(b'x' * (n % 80 - 1) + b'\n')
 
     return response
 
@@ -124,7 +122,7 @@ async def fetch(session, url, proxy=None):
 async def benchmarking_client(
         base_url, requests=200, payload_size=100000, proxy=None):
     start = time.time()
-    connector = aiohttp.TCPConnector(verify_ssl=False)
+    connector = aiohttp.TCPConnector(ssl=False)
     n_urls = 0
     n_bytes = 0
     url = '%s/%s' % (base_url, payload_size)