Communications: Voice, Radio and Data - Too much static for DSL

Hey all, I live around 8500 ft from the local CO and they said the static on my line (around 60dB) is too much for dsl (max 48dB so they claim).
Now, I do notice some static on our phones.

My question, we only have 1 phone jack in use, the other 3 don't have anything plugged into them.

I currently live in a mobile home, so the phone box is maybe 2-4 ft from my trailer. I checked the wiring, it's the old red/green and black/yellow. The wiring from the box goes under the trailer about 8ft and then is set to a block which looks like it splits to 4 spots.. one at the back, one at the front, one to the front room, and one to the kitchen in the trailer. It looks like only the one to the front room (the jack we use) is actually hooked up, the other connections are dangling there..

I went out and reconnected the wires from the jack to the block thinking maybe they were degraded (mobile home was built in 76, so it's 33 years old) and no status change.

I do have to say one thing, last year we had a 'tech' from the phone company come out twice to reconnect wires, and it looks like cat3 was re-ran from the block to the front room.. but I don't think it was re-ran from him, it looks like it's older cat3.

My question is, would it be wise to just run a cat5 cable from the phone box outside to the wall jack in the front room? or should I run cat5 from the box outside to the block, then from the block to the jack? And, would that help eliminate noise? I don't have a non-cordless phone to test with :(

Thanks all!
Dustin

Dustin, welcome to the forums! 8500' is borderline. I have had the static problem before, and would up rewiring my houses' phone system from the interface. I found rats had chewed a wire and it affected all the phones. I ran two lines from the interface. One to supply the phones and one dedicated to the DSL . You, of course, have to filter all your phones, faxes, satellite box connection, etc., so be sure to check that out. I forgot about the satellite one when I first hooked it up.
If the static stays audible on your phone lines, take a hard wired phone to the interface and see if the static is there. If so, call the phone guys back. They had to run a complete new drop for me since they couldn't even find my pedestal to troubleshoot the static which was on their side.

u need to go to the nid (network interface device) and disconnect your home from the co. It should have a telephone jack inside of it. If their is static on the line still its the provider problem if not its your problem. And if its your problem you could use cat 5e but its ok to use cat 3. Because dsl is a direct service line witch information is still sent from the c.o on cat 3 to you so you are only strong as your weakest link. 60db is to much stress for the signal of dsl to carry clean without loss.