diff --git a/api/db/logs.py b/api/db/logs.py
index 6b2512b..fde9cec 100644
--- a/api/db/logs.py
+++ b/api/db/logs.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import os
-import bson
-import datetime
+import time
 
 from dotenv import load_dotenv
 from motor.motor_asyncio import AsyncIOMotorClient
@@ -22,7 +21,7 @@ async def log_api_request(user, request, target_url):
         model = payload['model']
 
     new_log_item = {
-        'timestamp': bson.timestamp.Timestamp(datetime.datetime.now(), 0),
+        'timestamp': time.time(),
         'method': request.method,
         'path': request.url.path,
         'user_id': user['_id'],
diff --git a/api/netclient.py b/api/netclient.py
index 181ee8a..0d79c45 100644
--- a/api/netclient.py
+++ b/api/netclient.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import os
-import requests
+import aiohttp
+import asyncio
+import aiohttp_socks
 
 from dotenv import load_dotenv
 
@@ -9,7 +11,7 @@ from helpers import exceptions
 
 load_dotenv()
 
-async def stream(request: dict):
+async def stream(request: dict, demo_mode: bool=False):
     headers = {
         'Content-Type': 'application/json'
     }
@@ -18,27 +20,42 @@ async def stream(request: dict):
         headers[k] = v
 
     for _ in range(3):
-        response = requests.request(
-            method=request.get('method', 'POST'),
-            url=request['url'],
-            json=request.get('payload', {}),
-            headers=headers,
-            timeout=int(os.getenv('TRANSFER_TIMEOUT', '120')),
-            proxies=proxies.default_proxy.urls,
-            stream=True
-        )
+        async with aiohttp.ClientSession(connector=proxies.default_proxy.connector) as session:
+            async with session.get(
+                # 'GET',
+                'https://checkip.amazonaws.com/'
+            ) as response:
+                print(response.content)
+                print(type(response.content))
 
-        try:
-            response.raise_for_status()
-        except Exception as exc:
-            if str(exc) == '429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url: https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions':
-                continue
-        else:
-            break
+                # html = await response.text()
+                # print(html)
 
-    for chunk in response.iter_lines():
-        chunk = f'{chunk.decode("utf8")}\n\n'
-        yield chunk
+                    # async with session.get(
+                        # method='GET',
+                        # url='https://checkip.amazonaws.com',
+                        # method=request.get('method', 'POST'),
+                        # url=request['url'],
+                        # json=request.get('payload', {}),
+                        # headers=headers,
+                        # timeout=aiohttp.ClientTimeout(total=float(os.getenv('TRANSFER_TIMEOUT', '120'))),
+                    # ) as response:
+                        # try:
+                            # await response.raise_for_status()
+                        # except Exception as exc:
+                            # if 'Too Many Requests' in str(exc):
+                                # continue
+                        # else:
+                            # break
+
+                async for chunk in response.content.iter_chunks():
+                    # chunk = f'{chunk.decode("utf8")}\n\n'
+                
+                    if demo_mode:
+                        print(chunk)
+
+                    yield chunk
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    pass
+    asyncio.run(stream({'method': 'GET', 'url': 'https://checkip.amazonaws.com'}, True))
+
diff --git a/api/proxies.py b/api/proxies.py
index 70d90ad..10f5e33 100644
--- a/api/proxies.py
+++ b/api/proxies.py
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ class Proxy:
                 print(f'Detected IP: {detected_ip}')
                 return detected_ip.strip()
 
-    async def get_connector(self):
+    @property
+    def connector(self):
         proxy_types = {
             'http': aiohttp_socks.ProxyType.HTTP,
             'https': aiohttp_socks.ProxyType.HTTP,
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ class Proxy:
             'socks5': aiohttp_socks.ProxyType.SOCKS5
         }
 
-        connector = aiohttp_socks.ProxyConnector(
+        return aiohttp_socks.ProxyConnector(
             proxy_type=proxy_types[self.proxy_type],
             host=self.host,
             port=self.port,
@@ -69,10 +70,6 @@ class Proxy:
             password=self.password
         )
 
-        await self.initialize_connector(connector)
-
-        return connector
-
 default_proxy = Proxy(
     proxy_type=os.getenv('PROXY_TYPE', 'http'),
     host_or_ip=os.getenv('PROXY_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
@@ -81,16 +78,6 @@ default_proxy = Proxy(
     password=os.getenv('PROXY_PASS')
 )
 
-def test_httpx():
-    import httpx
-
-    print(default_proxy.proxies)
-
-    with httpx.Client(
-        # proxies=default_proxy.proxies
-    ) as client:
-        return client.get('https://checkip.amazonaws.com').text.strip()
-
 def test_httpx_workaround():
     import httpx
 
@@ -113,6 +100,13 @@ def test_requests():
         proxies=default_proxy.urls
     ).text.strip()
 
+async def test_aiohttp_socks():
+    async with aiohttp.ClientSession(connector=default_proxy.connector) as session:
+        async with session.get('https://checkip.amazonaws.com/') as response:
+            html = await response.text()
+            return html.strip()
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    print(test_httpx())
+    # print(test_httpx())
     # print(test_requests())
+    print(asyncio.run(test_aiohttp_socks()))
diff --git a/api/transfer.py b/api/transfer.py
index 9fef647..1ef3545 100644
--- a/api/transfer.py
+++ b/api/transfer.py
@@ -89,4 +89,6 @@ async def handle(incoming_request):
 
     print(target_request['url'])
 
+    return errors.error(500, 'Sorry, the API is currenly under maintainance.', 'Please try again later.')
+
     return starlette.responses.StreamingResponse(netclient.stream(target_request))