diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 90faa40d..0ecfb529 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -24,12 +24,12 @@ ngtcp2, nghttp3 and my patched OpenSSL.
 https://github.com/ngtcp2/ngtcp2#build-from-git describes how to build
 these three software.
 
-To run h2load against HTTP/3 server, specify h3-29 ALPN with
+To run h2load against HTTP/3 server, specify h3 or h3-29 ALPN with
 ``--npn-list`` option like so:
 
 .. code-block:: text
 
-    $ h2load --npn-list h3-29 https://127.0.0.1:4433
+    $ h2load --npn-list h3 https://127.0.0.1:4433
 
 You can use Dockerfile to skip the tedious build steps to manually
 pull and build dependencies.  In order to build Docker image, do this:
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Run h2load:
 
 .. code-block:: text
 
-    $ docker run --rm -it --network=host nghttp2-quic /usr/local/bin/h2load --npn-list h3-29 https://127.0.0.1:4433
+    $ docker run --rm -it --network=host nghttp2-quic /usr/local/bin/h2load --npn-list h3 https://127.0.0.1:4433
 
 Development Status
 ------------------
diff --git a/src/h2load.cc b/src/h2load.cc
index a51b2372..fca66a9e 100644
--- a/src/h2load.cc
+++ b/src/h2load.cc
@@ -138,7 +138,8 @@ bool Config::is_timing_based_mode() const { return (this->duration > 0); }
 bool Config::has_base_uri() const { return (!this->base_uri.empty()); }
 bool Config::rps_enabled() const { return this->rps > 0.0; }
 bool Config::is_quic() const {
-  return !npn_list.empty() && npn_list[0] == NGHTTP3_ALPN_H3;
+  return !npn_list.empty() &&
+         (npn_list[0] == NGHTTP3_ALPN_H3 || npn_list[0] == "\x5h3-29");
 }
 Config config;
 
@@ -1042,7 +1043,8 @@ int Client::connection_made() {
       auto proto = StringRef{next_proto, next_proto_len};
       if (config.is_quic()) {
         assert(session);
-        if (!util::streq(StringRef{&NGHTTP3_ALPN_H3[1]}, proto)) {
+        if (!util::streq(StringRef{&NGHTTP3_ALPN_H3[1]}, proto) &&
+            !util::streq_l("h3-29", proto)) {
           return -1;
         }
       } else if (util::check_h2_is_selected(proto)) {
diff --git a/src/h2load_quic.cc b/src/h2load_quic.cc
index b52b8abc..31a576c8 100644
--- a/src/h2load_quic.cc
+++ b/src/h2load_quic.cc
@@ -370,9 +370,18 @@ int Client::quic_init(const sockaddr *local_addr, socklen_t local_addrlen,
       {remote_addrlen, const_cast<sockaddr *>(remote_addr)},
   };
 
-  rv = ngtcp2_conn_client_new(&quic.conn, &dcid, &scid, &path,
-                              NGTCP2_PROTO_VER_MIN, &callbacks, &settings,
-                              &params, nullptr, this);
+  assert(config->npn_list.size());
+
+  uint32_t quic_version;
+
+  if (config->npn_list[0] == NGHTTP3_ALPN_H3) {
+    quic_version = NGTCP2_PROTO_VER_V1;
+  } else {
+    quic_version = NGTCP2_PROTO_VER_MIN;
+  }
+
+  rv = ngtcp2_conn_client_new(&quic.conn, &dcid, &scid, &path, quic_version,
+                              &callbacks, &settings, &params, nullptr, this);
   if (rv != 0) {
     return -1;
   }