{"slug": "show-hn-see-how-long-it-takes-chatgpt-sol-5-6-to-send-a-byte-across-the-lan", "title": "Show HN: See how long it takes ChatGPT Sol 5.6 to send a byte across the LAN", "summary": "A developer reports that ChatGPT 5.6 Sol on Max setting has failed to send a single byte across a local gigabit LAN after 1 hour 32 minutes, following previous failed attempts with Claude and Sol that took 5 days and 2 days respectively. The developer is publicly tracking the progress on a live webpage, having spent 20.7 hours and written 62 emails (20,813 words) on the Claude attempt, which consumed 2,758,521,167 input tokens and 7,930,482 output tokens across 9,135 API calls.", "body_md": "The problem: I noticed that any VNC client I tried wasn't able to reliably send keystrokes (about a byte on average) on my local wired LAN between a Mac Mini and a Windows desktop, both connected with gigabit ethernet cables to the same router.\n\nKeystrokes would constantly drop out. So I asked ChatGPT 5.6 Sol on Max setting to build a solution that is able to send keystrokes without dropping them.\n\nIt's building it right now.\n\nHere you can see how long it takes until it is able to send 1 byte across the local network given gigabit LAN:\n\n[https://robss2020.github.io/sol-vnc-elapsed/](https://robss2020.github.io/sol-vnc-elapsed/)\n\nThis is updated in realtime with a screenshot every 15 minutes of whatever the fuck it thinks it's doing on this grade school afternoon assignment.\n\nThis is a work in progress. So far the previous time to 0 bytes was 5 days for Claude (I then killed the project and tried with Sol) and about 2 days time to 0 bytes for Sol before I had to delete that attempt.\n\nThis time I'm building this in public so we can all see how long it takes it to get 1 byte across a connected ethernet LAN line without dropping it.\n\nHere are the statistics from Claude's build:\n\nhours_personal_time_testing (62 sessions x 10 min): 10.3 hours_personal_time_emails (62 emails, test+think+write+read): 10.3 hours_personal_time_total_estimate: 20.7 emails_you_wrote_on_this_subject: 62 words_you_wrote_excluding_quoted_history: 20813 average_words_per_email: 335 claude_input_tokens_total_incl_cache: 2758521167 claude_output_tokens_total: 7930482 claude_api_calls: 9135\n\nAt that point I had to delete the project. Now let's see if Sol can do any better!\n\nSo far it's been 1 hour 32 minutes and counting...\n\nI'll keep updating this for the next two or three months and tens of billions of tokens until it's done! I mean is writing a byte across the network really an O(n^n^n) operation? (8^8 is only 16,777,216 so it's gotta be at least n^n^n.). Big if true!\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235142](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235142)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-see-how-long-it-takes-chatgpt-sol-5-6-to-send-a-byte-across-the-lan", "canonical_source": "https://robss2020.github.io/sol-vnc-elapsed/", "published_at": "2026-08-09 19:54:17+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-09 20:04:43.050902+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["ChatGPT 5.6 Sol", "Claude", "Mac Mini", "Windows", "gigabit ethernet", "VNC"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-see-how-long-it-takes-chatgpt-sol-5-6-to-send-a-byte-across-the-lan", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-see-how-long-it-takes-chatgpt-sol-5-6-to-send-a-byte-across-the-lan.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-see-how-long-it-takes-chatgpt-sol-5-6-to-send-a-byte-across-the-lan.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-see-how-long-it-takes-chatgpt-sol-5-6-to-send-a-byte-across-the-lan.jsonld"}}