Does Repeater Helps?

I need help with my networking access speed. I'm currently staying in my school hostel. Here's is my problem:

i have a friend who's room is near to the server room, about 50 metres, while my room is about 100m from the server room. I've tried using my fren's com to d/l some stuff, at speed of 5MB/s. However i tried to d/l the same file on my com, only manage to clock 40kb/s. My connection is 100mb/s. I heard that if i buy a hub/repeater, it'll help to boost my speed. Is this true? Or is there anyway which i can maximise my connection speed? Btw my internet connection is thru the school's proxy server. tks in advance

This is not true. It is like saying if you add a 3/4 inch water hose to a 1/2 inch water hose you're going to get 3/4inch of water thru-put. Doesn't work like that. A repeater just increases the distance not the speed.

You may be bandwidth controlled or your connection to the switch is 100mb but the switch connection to the backbone is only 10mb.

There are a lot of factors out of your control concerning the network.

Might talk to the IT department about your bandwidth issues. Perhaps they can suggest or do something.

Well, there is alot of determining factors. For one, its all depending on what Website/Server your trying to download from, thats always one of the key factors. Another thing is depending on how much wire is used. The maximum a Cat5 wire should be is 90meters, with give or take 5 meters for two patch cables.. (from patch panel to switch, and from wall panel to computer) Now I'm not necessarily saying that this is your problem, but once your wire has reached a certain limit of length, Yes, the signal does get weaker, and packets are lost, and this may result in very low speeds. A repeater may not be needed, But yes I would recomend speaking to an IT professional at your establishment, or housing. See what he/she has to recomend to you.

Um that is 100 meters or 328 feet for max length of cat 5.

It can very well be that repeaters are the problem from what is described. It works like this. You have a main switch with a connection to the internet. You uplink from here to a remote switch. That remote switch then connected to another remote switch. All switches are populated with uses/pcs. Those on the first switch get better bandwidth then those on the 2nd switch who get more then those on the 3rd switch.

This is because those on switch3 have to share the pipe with all the users on switch2. Each uplink adds lag time to internet access.

Best configuration is to have a main backbone switch with internet/servers connection only. No users/pcs. Down one layer are the three switches with all the pc users. This way all the pcs get the same access.