Apparatuses, methods, and systems for dynamically controlling a local buffer of a modem of a wireless device are disclosed. One method includes receiving transmission packets in the local buffer of the modem of the wireless device for wireless transmission to a receiving device, purging a transmission packet from the local buffer after receiving an acknowledgement of reception of the transmission packet from the receiving device, and requesting acknowledgement from the receiving device when a queue of the transmission packets within the local buffer exceeds a threshold level, wherein a time delay is introduced before the requesting of the acknowledgement, wherein the time delay is based at least on a propagation delay of the wireless transmission between the wireless device and the receiving device.