diff --git a/extras/qps-bench-server.py b/extras/qps-bench-server.py
index b2c824bb3..da7a0022b 100755
--- a/extras/qps-bench-server.py
+++ b/extras/qps-bench-server.py
@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ class Root(Resource):
             qps = len(self.tail) / sum(self.tail)
             print('samplesize={0} concurrent={1} qps={2:0.2f}'.format(len(self.tail), self.concurrent, qps))
 
-        if 'sleep' in request.args:
-            sleep = float(request.args['sleep'][0])
-            reactor.callLater(sleep, self._finish, request)
+        if 'latency' in request.args:
+            latency = float(request.args['latency'][0])
+            reactor.callLater(latency, self._finish, request)
             return NOT_DONE_YET
 
         self.concurrent -= 1
diff --git a/extras/qpsclient.py b/extras/qpsclient.py
index 53783b52a..4cdaecb2a 100644
--- a/extras/qpsclient.py
+++ b/extras/qpsclient.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ A spider that generate light requests to meassure QPS troughput
 
 usage:
 
-    scrapy runspider qpsclient.py --loglevel=INFO --set RANDOMIZE_DOWNLOAD_DELAY=0 --set CONCURRENT_REQUESTS=50 -a qps=10 -a sleep=0.3
+    scrapy runspider qpsclient.py --loglevel=INFO --set RANDOMIZE_DOWNLOAD_DELAY=0 --set CONCURRENT_REQUESTS=50 -a qps=10 -a latency=0.3
 
 """
 
@@ -16,27 +16,40 @@ class QPSSpider(BaseSpider):
     name = 'qps'
     benchurl = 'http://localhost:8880/'
 
-
     # Max concurrency is limited by global CONCURRENT_REQUESTS setting
     max_concurrent_requests = 8
     # Requests per second goal
     qps = None # same as: 1 / download_delay
+    download_delay = None
     # time in seconds to delay server responses
-    sleep = None 
+    latency = None
+    # number of slots to create
+    slots = 1
 
     def __init__(self, *a, **kw):
         super(QPSSpider, self).__init__(*a, **kw)
         if self.qps is not None:
             self.qps = float(self.qps)
             self.download_delay = 1 / self.qps
+        elif self.download_delay is not None:
+            self.download_delay = float(self.download_delay)
 
     def start_requests(self):
         url = self.benchurl
-        if self.sleep is not None:
-            url += '?sleep={0}'.format(self.sleep)
+        if self.latency is not None:
+            url += '?latency={0}'.format(self.latency)
 
+        slots = int(self.slots)
+        if slots > 1:
+            urls = [url.replace('localhost', '127.0.0.%d' % (x + 1)) for x in xrange(slots)]
+        else:
+            urls = [url]
+
+        idx = 0
         while True:
+            url = urls[idx % len(urls)]
             yield Request(url, dont_filter=True)
+            idx += 1
 
     def parse(self, response):
         pass