Is 1.5 Mbps download and 500 Kbps enough to play online?

Hi I currently have fibre op Internet which is awesome but we are buying a house in an area that is about 5 mins outside of town and fibre op is not available there so I have to settle for what is called east link rural connect. The speeds are 1.5 Mbps download and 500 Kbps upload. I'm worried my hubby won't be able to play COD. Any info is very appreciated thanks

Those are my brothers speeds and he plays online, really.

@tashamarie85: Its fine

Most games suggest over 3mbps for games like gta so I would not suggest 1.5 it will probably not even properly load up network features.

That speed is amish low. But as stated, some games should be fine.

Did your grandma tell you that? cos its wrong.

Dial-up is fine for games, speed means nothing, its all about reliability and ping.

Should be able to manage, however anything less then 3-4mb will be stressful, (5mb+ recommended) - also depends on strength of the line and ping. Maybe look into portable Wi-FI solution.

@GTR12: If you read the GTA V support page it states you need that speed.

@alanissak320: Link me the page or its fake and your wrong.

https://support.rockstargames.com/hc/communities/public/questions/201817678-Best-Connection-speed-for-GTA-online-Minimum-Connection-speed-required-

That seems to prove that you only need 512kbps.

@GTR12: https://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/200525767-GTA-Online-Connection-Troubleshooting

There and quit being so hostile I am talking normally to you. It's recommend for 3mbps and at my house is have in the mountains I get around 500kbs and I can't even connect to psn. Although ping matters you still need a descent amount of download speed and upload to get it to work.

I'm on FiOs but the router is so far from me so I only get 1.9mbs download and about 800 up. I havn't seen any lag in COD, GTA V, NBA 2k or Destiny online however when playing Rocket League I do experience connection issues. As some have said, I feel certain games work better online at low speeds than others.

Lol I'm not being hostile, people just take things way out of context.

And R* don't know anything LMAO. I have had a plan where I got capped at 64k if I went over 14GB downloaded data per month (back in 05, playing GTA), it was fine.

@GTR12: Well yours may be fine maliciously on that connection but when I had 512kb in my other house I could not even sign in into psn

As long as you're not playing fighting games or going wireless, then you should be fine.

Slower connection speeds I've used have never really been reliable. I don't know enough about that ISP, but if it's all wireless then you're probably going to run into problems when gaming online because the ping probably won't be good. It will help if the connection is wired, but I wouldn't want to depend on an internet connection with those speeds for online gaming. It might be passable, but it's definitely not ideal.