EggXpert

I'm going to be wiring my house so that there is several cat-5 jacks in all my rooms and a friend of mine told me I need a port switch not just a router.  I only use the internet for downloading music, movies, pictures, etc... and for xbox live gaming.  I was looking at all the netgear port switches but then noticed the Rosewill RC-406x 10/100Mbps 8 port switch and I wanted to know what anyone elses opinion was??? thanks for the help.

Don't get a Rosewill switch...

The whole point of getting a switch is that you get gigabit transfers (requires Cat-5e or Cat-6 cabling). I'd recommend you make sure you get CAT-6 installed if you can, the cables aren't that more expensive than Cat-5 installations.. Also, CAT-6 scales up to 10 Gigabit. which is 100X faster than Cat-5.

The labor of running the cables is where the real costs are and you don't want to be doing it all over again to upgrade to faster speeds of Cat-6 cabling.

What port switch would you recommend then for what I need?  I'm gonna do all the cabling myself with my friend who's a home theater and network installer.

Cisco, 3COM, D-Link, Netgear, Linksys, in no particular order.

Any of these would work well.