网络念佛堂

Rank 35 of 48 in Hong Kong SAR China. What that mostly measures is how many people have already found the station through this directory, which is a poor proxy for anything else and an honest one to publish.

Language and country do not match up the obvious way here. 网络念佛堂 transmits from Hong Kong SAR China, where Cantonese leads the listing, and broadcasts in Chinese, which 17 of the country's stations use.

The shelf for the language holds 1,229 stations, led by China. A station like this one broadcasting from Hong Kong SAR China is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

At 828 kbps, 网络念佛堂 streams at more than double Hong Kong SAR China's median of 70 kbps. That is a deliberate choice by whoever runs it: bandwidth is the recurring cost of an internet station, and a rate this far above the local norm is money spent on sounding better than the dial around it.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.