diff --git a/src/hip/_connection.py b/src/hip/_connection.py
index 8d1673f..f8f4f4c 100644
--- a/src/hip/_connection.py
+++ b/src/hip/_connection.py
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
 from ._body import GZipStream, HTTPStream
 from ._content import Content
 from ._headers import Headers
-from ._network import Lock, NetworkBackend
 from ._parsers import HTTPParser
 from ._request import Method, Request
 from ._response import Response, StatusCode
 from ._streams import Stream
 from ._urls import URL
+from .backends.sync import Lock, NetworkBackend
 
 __all__ = [
     "Connection",
diff --git a/src/hip/_pool.py b/src/hip/_pool.py
index 189232f..812056c 100644
--- a/src/hip/_pool.py
+++ b/src/hip/_pool.py
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
     from typing_extensions import Self
 
 from ._connection import Connection, ResponseStream, Transport, open_connection
-from ._network import NetworkBackend, Semaphore
 from ._request import Request
 from ._urls import URL
+from .backends.sync import NetworkBackend, Semaphore
 
 __all__ = [
     "ConnectionPool",
diff --git a/src/hip/_server.py b/src/hip/_server.py
index 968260c..baf09d7 100644
--- a/src/hip/_server.py
+++ b/src/hip/_server.py
@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
 from ._body import HTTPStream
 from ._content import Text
 from ._headers import Headers
-from ._network import NetworkBackend
 from ._parsers import HTTPParser
 from ._request import Request
 from ._response import Response
 from ._timeouts import sleep
+from .backends.sync import NetworkBackend
 
 __all__ = ["Server"]
 
diff --git a/src/hip/backends.py b/src/hip/backends.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 02ecb93..0000000
--- a/src/hip/backends.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-from ._network import NetworkBackend, NetworkStream
-
-__all__ = [
-    "NetworkBackend",
-    "NetworkStream",
-]
diff --git a/src/hip/backends/__init__.py b/src/hip/backends/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9189a1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/hip/backends/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+from .sync import NetworkBackend, NetworkStream
+
+__all__ = ["NetworkBackend", "NetworkStream"]
diff --git a/src/hip/_network.py b/src/hip/backends/sync.py
similarity index 98%
rename from src/hip/_network.py
rename to src/hip/backends/sync.py
index bd4dff5..1bc4562 100644
--- a/src/hip/_network.py
+++ b/src/hip/backends/sync.py
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
     # Once we drop 3.10 support, we can use 'typing.Self'.
     from typing_extensions import Self
 
-from ._streams import Stream
-from ._timeouts import get_current_timeout
+from .._streams import Stream
+from .._timeouts import get_current_timeout
 
 __all__ = ["NetworkBackend", "NetworkStream"]
 
diff --git a/tests/test_network.py b/tests/test_network.py
index 8359ca5..c774ae6 100644
--- a/tests/test_network.py
+++ b/tests/test_network.py
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ def create_connection(address, timeout):
         create_connection_args.append((address, timeout))
         return raw_socket
 
-    monkeypatch.setattr("hip._network.socket.create_connection", create_connection)
+    monkeypatch.setattr("hip.backends.sync.socket.create_connection", create_connection)
 
     stream = backend.connect_tls("example.com", 443)
     try: