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As long as you don't over load the wall socket you can have a mile's worth of extension cord.

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You can not have a miles worth of cord as the voltage drop would be so high on a #14 wire that there would not be enough voltage to run the computer. Make sure that the extension cord has a ground wire in it so that the ground wire is continuous from the receptacle to the surge protector to the computer.

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